Quotes from Leslie Caron

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

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

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

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

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

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