Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’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 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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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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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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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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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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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