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

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

Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

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

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.

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.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.