Leslie Caron quotes
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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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“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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“I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.”
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“the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.”
-- Leslie CaronSource : Leslie Caron (1983). “Vengeance”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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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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“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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“The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.”
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“Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.”
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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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“It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.”
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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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“When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.”
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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 went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.”
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“The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.”
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“Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs”
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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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“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
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“You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.”
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“What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.”
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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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“I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.”
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“I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.”
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“I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.”
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“I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.”
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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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“Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.”
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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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