I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
MICHAEL CAINEWhat a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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