Leslie Caron movie quotes

“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
Leslie Caron On Liz Taylor

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

“I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.”
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

“- Gigi: Do you make love all the time?
- Gaston Lachaille: I beg your pardon?
- Gigi: Do you make love all the time, Gaston?
- Gaston Lachaille: Certainly not! The only people who make love all the time are liars.”
Leslie Caron - Gigi
Louis Jourdan - Gaston Lachaille

“- Aunt Alicia: Did you work hard in school today? What did you study?
- Gigi: History. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
- Aunt Alicia: How depressing. What else?
- Gigi: English.
- Aunt Alicia: English? I suppose we must. They refuse to learn French.”
Isabel Jeans - Aunt Alicia
Leslie Caron - Gigi

“- Aunt Alicia: Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists. The greater the artist the greater the art. And what makes an artist?
- Gigi: Cigars and jewelry?
- Aunt Alicia: Gigi, you're from another planet.”
Isabel Jeans - Aunt Alicia
Leslie Caron - Gigi

“- Lise Bouvier: Maybe Paris has a way of making people forget.
- Jerry Mulligan: Paris? No. Not this city. It's too real and too beautiful to ever let you forget anything.”
Leslie Caron - Lise Bouvier
Gene Kelly - Jerry Mulligan