You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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