It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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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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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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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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At 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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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 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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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