Leslie Caron

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

"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."

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

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

"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."

"Cinema will always have an important role to play in society."

"I got as little as a $75 a week when I started."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

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

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The plot may be problematic, but such concerns are rendered superfluous by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron's star power, the Gershwins' classic songs, and Vincente Minnelli's colorful, sympathetic direction.

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