The 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.
MICHAEL CAINEMy most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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 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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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At 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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