As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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 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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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 can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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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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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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