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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.
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I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
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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.
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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.
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The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
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It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
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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.
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Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.