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.
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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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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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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