Leslie Caron famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Ayurveda #India #Fantastic
the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
-- Leslie Caron

#Father #Achievement #Finest
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
-- Leslie Caron

#Regret #Not Good Enough #Scripts
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 #Paris
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
-- Leslie Caron

#Romance #Cost #Wholeheartedly
Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
-- Leslie Caron

#Play #Important #Roles
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 #Trying #Arrogant
It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
-- Leslie Caron

#Civilization #Marry Me #Difficult
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
-- Leslie Caron

#Dancer #Actresses
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
-- Leslie Caron

#Careers #Would Be #Lilies
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
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
-- Leslie Caron

#Japan #Cinema #Festivals
The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.
-- Leslie Caron

#Important #Active
Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs
-- Leslie Caron

#Dog #Lovers #Hell
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 #Actors #Rehearsal
The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
-- Leslie Caron
You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
-- Leslie Caron

#Roles #Actresses #Julia
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
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
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
-- Leslie Caron

#Country #Ballet #Middle
I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.
-- Leslie Caron

#Littles #Week
I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
-- Leslie Caron

#Children #Kids #Two
I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.
-- Leslie Caron

#Different #Roles #Break
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 #People #Office
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
-- Leslie Caron

#Girl #Dancer #Formal
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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