I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEI read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
MICHAEL CAINEI think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINEI usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINEWhen 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.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINEActing is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
MICHAEL CAINEDo 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.
MICHAEL CAINEBe like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEObsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINEWhen I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
MICHAEL CAINEYou can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINEThe best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
MICHAEL CAINEI enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINE