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?’
MICHAEL CAINEI usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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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 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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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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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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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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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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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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