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 CAINEThat 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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