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 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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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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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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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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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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