Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINEThe basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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