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 CAINEI have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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 don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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