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 CAINEThe 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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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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What 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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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