I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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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 most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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