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? . . . The Red Shoes (1948) ruined my career in the ballet. They [her peers] never
trusted me again.