American Quotes

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.