Quotes from Leslie Caron

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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