Top 24 Quotes by Maximilian Schell

I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.