Leslie Caron quotes:
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You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
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I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
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I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
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The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
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Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
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The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.
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I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.
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I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
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When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
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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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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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We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
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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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I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.
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The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
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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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I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.
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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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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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There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
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I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.
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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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Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
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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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It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
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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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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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I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
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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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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs
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What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.