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 CAINEI don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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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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’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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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 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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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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