Austrian Quotes

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.