Leslie Caron Quotes

#1. What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

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#2. I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

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#3. We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

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#4. I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

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#5. What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

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#6. You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

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#7. Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

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#8. I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

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#9. I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

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#10. I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

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#11. I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

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#12. I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

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#13. When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

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#14. It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

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#15. Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

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#16. No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

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#17. In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

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#18. The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

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#19. There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

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#20. I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

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#21. I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

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#22. It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

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#23. I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

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#24. I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

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#25. Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

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#26. James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

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#27. The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer.

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#28. Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

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#29. The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

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#30. The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

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#31. I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

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#32. I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

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#33. I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

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