I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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 prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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