To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEI never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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Do 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.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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 don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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