You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINEIf you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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?’
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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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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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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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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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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