Leslie Caron Quotes
"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Film, First, Present)
"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
(Related: Actors, First, Will)
"The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Love, Romance, American)
"The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Love)
"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 happy?"
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Happiness, Order, Pain, Unhappiness)
"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Years)
"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Civilization)
"You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them."
- Leslie Caron
"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
(Related: Hollywood, London, Paris, Theater)
"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Time)
"I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Children, Kids)
"Cinema will always have an important role to play in society."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Society, Cinema, Play, Will)
"Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Girls)
"No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Change, Control, Mind)
"I got as little as a $75 a week when I started."
- Leslie Caron
"I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Love, Cinema, Film)
"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
(Related: Money, People, Hate, Office)
"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
(Related: Experience, Americans, Paris)
"I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic."
- Leslie Caron
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Film, Regret)
"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
(Related: Progress, End, Past)
"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Ballet, Countries)
"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
(Related: Hate, Trying)
"I longed to break out of the system and do different roles."
- Leslie Caron