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?’
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’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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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There’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 am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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