“The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.”

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

Rock bottom is a crisis. And everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what ‘crisis’ means literally is ‘to sift’ – like a child who goes to the beach, lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away, hoping that there’s treasure left over. That’s what crisis does.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.