Caron Quotes & Sayings

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

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too. — Eleonore Caron

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

It's your world, but I make my way in it. At fifteen, no, I couldn't stand up to you. The age of illusions, when we know nothing, we hope for everything; we're wandering in a mist ... And the half of the world that's never had any use for us, suddenly is besieging us. You need us, you adore us, you're suffering for us. You want everything--except to know what we think. You look deep in our eyes--and put your hand up our dress. You call us, "Pretty thing." That confuses us. The most beautiful woman, the highest ranked, lives half dazzled by constant attention, half stifled by obvious contempt. We think all we're good for is pleasing you--till one day, long acquaintance with you dispels the last mist. In a clear light, we suddenly see you as you are--and generally we start preferring ourselves. At thirty, I could finally say no--or really say yes. That's when you begin backing away from us. Now I'm full-grown. I pursue my happiness the same as any man. — Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais

Rene Caron takes my breath away! — Teresa Lynn

Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you're going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The talent to whip up the voters' worst passions while you seem to call on their highest instincts, and the sense to stay wrapped in the flag. That's politics: I'll take the simple life. — Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. — Leslie Caron

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way. — Leslie Caron

I've booked a few sessions to make it look like a genuine getaway but now I look at my programme, I wonder how to fit in murdering my mother-in-law." Cressida Barker-Powell (Criss Cross) — Caron Allan

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started. — Leslie Caron

What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron. — Dianna Agron

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

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

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

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

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. — Mary Quant

Caron, Even though you just got here a few months ago, We've grown so close over these last few weeks And, I can remember, When you first got here, You wrote a piece of paper in my locker ... I don't know why I'm crying so much man ... You wrote a piece of paper in my locker that said, "KD MVP." And that's after we had lost two or three straight. And I don't really say much in those moments, But I remember that. I go home and I think about that stuff man. When you got people behind you, You can do whatever. And I thank you man, I appreciate you. — Kevin Durant

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet. — Leslie Caron

Let your characters lead when you're dancing together. — Caron Kamps Widden

Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow. — Caron Kamps Widden

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

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

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

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page. — Caron Kamps Widden

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

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

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

Rather than sleep, Tibbets crawled through the thirty-foot tunnel to chat
with the waist crew, wondering if they knew what they were carrying. "A
chemist's nightmare," the tail gunner, Robert Caron, guessed, then "a
physicist's nightmare." "Not exactly," Tibbets hedged. Tibbets was leaving
by the time Caron put two and two together:
'Tibbets stayed a little longer, and then started to crawl forward up the tunnel. I remembered something else, and just as the last of the Old Man was disappearing, I sort of tugged at his foot, which was still showing. He came sliding back in a hurry, thinking maybe
something was wrong. "What's the matter?"
I looked at him and said, "Colonel, are we splitting atoms today?"
This time he gave me a really funny look, and said, "That's about it. — Richard Rhodes

He who expects not to achieve will never do so. — Caron Butler

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids. — Leslie Caron

But she was out of earshot, already moving on down the street amongst the other passers-by. — Frank Caron

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God has been working on a grand restoration project for a while. First there is the "restoration of all things" that Peter talked about in Acts 3:21. That would include the reinstatement of mankind as the head of creation and the renewing of the earth. — Alain 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

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