I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
MICHAEL CAINEMy mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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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 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.
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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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