I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’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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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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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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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.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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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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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.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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