Leslie Caron Quotes

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

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

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

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

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

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

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

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

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

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

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

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.

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

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

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

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

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

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

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

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

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

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

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.