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If I am dubious about films and film people; the film industry has only itself to blame.

I have been asked to play William Shakespeare. Other parts include a George Bernard Shaw play and a classic previously made by one of the screen's finest actresses. It would be ludicrous for me to try to play any of these parts. I am not an actress.

What people cannot realize is that a ballet dancer just cannot afford to give up ballet for a moment. After a month without practising you are thrown back years.

Isn't it strange that something you've never really wanted to do turns out to be the very thing that's given you a name and identity? . . . Die roten Schuhe (1948) ruined my career in the ballet. They [her peers] never trusted me again.