Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
MICHAEL CAINEMy 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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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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 am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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