American Quotes

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.

That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

I am in the prime of my senility.