Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINEThere 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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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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.
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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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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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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 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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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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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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