The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.