The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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At 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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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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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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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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.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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