Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
MICHAEL CAINEA man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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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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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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