If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
MICHAEL CAINEI was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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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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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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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