How it works

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
Not a MindZip member yet
Change
Control
Mind
Random

Explore more quotes

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
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
Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
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
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
Leslie Caron
I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.
Leslie Caron
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
Leslie Caron
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
Leslie Caron
The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
Leslie Caron
It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
Leslie 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
We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
Leslie Caron
I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
Leslie Caron
The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.
Leslie Caron
You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
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 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
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
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
I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.
Leslie Caron
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
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
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
Leslie Caron
I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.
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
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
A. R. Ammons
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
Ruggiero Ricci
I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
Carol Bellamy
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
Sarah Polley
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.
Benjamin Harrison
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
Gerry Adams
Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.
Richard Dean Anderson
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman
In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
John Naisbitt
The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
Connie Mack
One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.
Star Jones
But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.
Sanjay Kumar
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
An Wang
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
Georg Simmel
Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.
Estelle Morris