Leslie Caron

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone…

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and…

— Leslie Caron

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never…

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

— Leslie Caron

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part.…

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

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

— Leslie Caron

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British…

— Leslie Caron