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?’
MICHAEL CAINEWhat 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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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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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 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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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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