I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.
I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.
I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.
I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.
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.
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover – but we fought like stray dogs.
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 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 had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
It’s very difficult to marry into another civilization.
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.
Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.