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

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.

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

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

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.