Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
MICHAEL CAINEI did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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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 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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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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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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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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