I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
MICHAEL CAINEEnglish is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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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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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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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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