Leslie Caron Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

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

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

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

James Ivory is very, very subtle in his study of human behavior. I think that he's very aware of the subtleties of women behavior.

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

I noticed that when I went to see the rushes or the first showing that there was something quite human in this desperation, and I hadn't planned it.

The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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