In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?Collection: Great
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.Collection: Romantic
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.
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.
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.
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
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.
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 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.
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
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 got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.Collection: Knowing
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.Collection: Beautiful
Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogsCollection: Dog
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.Collection: Experience
the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.Collection: Father