I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINEAbout 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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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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