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.

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.

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

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

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

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.