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

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Leslie Caron

“[I'm] an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.”
“I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.”
“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.”
“The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.”
“Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.”
“Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.”
“Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.”
“Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.”

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