Leslie Caron Quotes

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

  Leslie Caron

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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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.

  Leslie Caron

  Past, Thinking, Progress

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

  Leslie Caron

  Knowing, People, Hell

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

  Leslie Caron

  Ayurveda, India, Fantastic

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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.

  Leslie Caron

  Beautiful, Real, Cities

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

  Leslie Caron

  Important, Active, Important Things

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

  Leslie Caron

  Dancer, Actresses, My Time

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

  Leslie Caron

  Play, Important, Roles

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

  Leslie Caron

  Littles, Week

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

  Leslie Caron

  Careers, Would Be, Lilies

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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.

  Leslie Caron

  Hate, Office, People

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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.

  Leslie Caron

  Civilization, Paris, Personality

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

  Leslie Caron

  Experience, Encounters, Her Beauty

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

  Leslie Caron

  Romance, Cost, Wholeheartedly

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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.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Paris, House

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

  Leslie Caron

  Different, Roles, Break Out

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• It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

  Leslie Caron

  Civilization, Marry Me, Difficult

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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.

  Leslie Caron

  Hate, Arrogant Person, Trying

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

  Leslie Caron

  Roles, Actresses, Written

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

  Leslie Caron

  Dog, Lovers, Hell

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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.

  Leslie Caron

  Ivory, Firsts, Actors

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• I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Ballet, Middle

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

  Leslie Caron

  Children, Kids, Two

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

  Leslie Caron

  Father, Achievement, Finest

  Leslie Caron (1983). “Vengeance”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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

  Leslie Caron

  Studios, Millions

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