Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINEI usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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.
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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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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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