94 Quotes by Cyd Charisse

Who can copy Garbo?

I spent some time in Paris when I made 'Black Tights.' The working people were great but I didn't like the attitude of merchants who raised prices when they learned you were an American.

The happy marriages never get any publicity. It's just the bad ones that you read about.

I eat a big breakfast and then go off to an hour and a half of strong ballet class.

I simply hate the sight of a suitcase.

I suppose I'm considered a little old fashioned, but I still believe the most flattering skirt length is just skimming the middle of the knee.

The music changed. We had Irving Berlin and Gershwin and Lerner and Loewe and Cole Porter. Great music. Now we have 'Rent.'

I joined the Ballets Russes when I was 14, and my name was changed twice. I was known as Marie Istomina, then as Felia Siderova. When I went to Hollywood and made my first movie, 'Mission to Moscow,' in 1943, I became Lily Norwood.

If I have any strength as a dancer, I got it all from Nijinska. Her barre was tough, and there were very difficult combinations.