I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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