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?’
MICHAEL CAINEA lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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