If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
MICHAEL CAINEAt 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’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having 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 think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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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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