I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

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.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

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.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

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

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

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

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

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

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.

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

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

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

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.

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.

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

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.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

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

A new broom sweeps clean

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

Since the announcement that Boeing was going to open a plant in Charleston, South Carolina, Boeing has actually created 2,000 new jobs in Washington state. So it's hard to say you are retaliating against the union when you create 2,000 members to their role.

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

The first rule of management is delegation. Dont try and do everything yourself because you cant.