Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
MICHAEL CAINEIf you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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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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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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