A 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.
MICHAEL CAINEAnyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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.
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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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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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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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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.
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