The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.
Smiles are the soul's kisses.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through. ' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall. '
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.