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Hollywood 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!

Michael Caine

Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
MICHAEL CAINE

Comedy Drama Oneself Writing
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
MICHAEL CAINE

Language Opposite Speech
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 CAINE

Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINE

Freedom Individual Sacrifice Unique Yourself
A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
MICHAEL CAINE

Clothes Himself Man Material Notice Way
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
MICHAEL CAINE

Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Poor Preference Rich
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Choice Place Time Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Development Life Myself Old Roam Thinking
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Age Play Research Time
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
MICHAEL CAINE

Character Darkness Form Myself View World
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINE

Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINE

Control Environment Myself Quiet Subtle
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINE

Dreams Impossible Oneself

Hollywood 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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