I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
MICHAEL CAINEYou’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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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 prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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That 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.
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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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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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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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