I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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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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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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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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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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