Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.