I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

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.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

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.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.