"We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in."

"Which one? My sister, my mother or my husband?"

"You have done more to bring shame on the family than could ever have been imagined."

"Not once have you hung your head in embarrassment even for a minute after those disgraceful photographs. Clearly you …"

"Her Royal Highness was charming ("I have this terribly flat voice," she told me apologetically), with a ready sense o…"

"But we can go back further still, for the thing did not start with Princess Anne, either; before her there was Prince…"

"She is far too bright for her station in life, which she takes altogether too solemnly."

"Dance is poetry because its ultimate goal is to express feelings, even if through a rigid technique. Our task is to c…"

"There was once a word that I am proud of and that is part of my childhood: proletariat. Unfortunately, no one uses it…"

"I had extraordinary encounters, such as Visconti, gruff and very sweet. Like Herbert Ross, for whom I played Karsavin…"