I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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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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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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 don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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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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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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