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?
• 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…
• Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
• Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
• I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
• The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
• You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
• What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
• I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.
• I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
• I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.
• 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 hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
• 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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