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.

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.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

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.

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