My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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 difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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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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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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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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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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