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.
MICHAEL CAINEActing is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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I 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.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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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 have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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When 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.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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