Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
MICHAEL CAINEBooks 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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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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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 best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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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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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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