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Leslie Caron (26)

Birth:	1st July, 1931
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actress, Dancer

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Births

• 1994 - Tom Daley
• 1957 - Judge Reinhold
• 1917 - Raymond Burr
• 1959 - Nick Cassavetes
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• 1991 - Rajiv Gandhi
• 1926 - Ronald Firbank
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• You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It’s very difficult to marry into another civilization.

   

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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