The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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 much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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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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