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 CAINEThe best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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 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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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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