I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
MICHAEL CAINEThe 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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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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 was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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