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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.

Michael Caine

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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Character Darkness Form Myself View World
Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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Avoid Choice Difficult Inspirational Perspective Yourself
Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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Day Smart Stop Time Truth
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Control Director Movie Power Yourself
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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Choice Place Time Yourself
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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Change Difference Movie
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Excuse Game Growth Man Myself Obsession Young
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
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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Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
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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Account Built Myself See Sight Terrible Terrific
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Language Opposite Speech
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Dreams Impossible Oneself
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Myself Poor Preference Rich
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Action Work Yourself
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
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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Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself

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