I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

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

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.

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

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

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

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

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

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

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've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.

We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

I don't like fun, it upsets me.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.