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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."
"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."
"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."
"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 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."
"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 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."
"When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined."
"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."
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