In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
MICHAEL CAINEGreat acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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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 was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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