I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
MICHAEL CAINEHollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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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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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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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