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Leslie Caron [1931-0] French

Rank: 103
Actress, Film actress

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a Franco-American film actress and dancer who has appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003. Her autobiography, Thank Heaven, was published in 2010 in the UK and US, and in 2011 in a French version.

Happiness, Romantic

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The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.	Romantic	101
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?	Happiness	102
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.		103
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.		104
Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.		105
The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.		106
It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.		107
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.		108
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.		109
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.		110
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.		111
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.		112
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.		113
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.		114
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.		115
We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.		116
I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.		117
The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.		118
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.		119
I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.		120
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.		121
I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.		122
You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.		123
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.		124
I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.		125
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.		126

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