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.
MICHAEL CAINESome 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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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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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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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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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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