First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
MICHAEL CAINEAt age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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