Michael Caine on control
Michael Caine88 quotes“If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.”
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael CaineMichael Caine I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
Michael CaineMichael Caine You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
Michael CaineMichael Caine I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
Michael CaineMichael Caine Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
Michael CaineMichael Caine Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael CaineMichael Caine As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
Michael CaineMichael Caine My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
Michael CaineMichael Caine Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
Michael CaineMichael Caine I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
Michael CaineMichael Caine 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.
Michael CaineMichael Caine The trouble with women? Elbows.
Michael CaineMichael Caine I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
Michael CaineMichael Caine I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
Michael CaineMichael Caine A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
Michael CaineMichael Caine 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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