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.
MICHAEL CAINEMaybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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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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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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