Leslie Caron Quotes

You can't sit back, rest on laurels and think about the past - what the journey has been.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.

You should always want more. If you get comfortable with what you have done, you can never go to that next level.

If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

I always feel like I have to keep going. You can sit back and say, 'Maybe I can stop.' But then you're yesterday, and I love tomorrow.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

That's important for me, to never just relax and be too comfortable with what you have.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

Of course we believe we can always improve because the moment that you think you cannot improve anymore you go backwards.

For me, I just like new challenges.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.