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 CAINEA 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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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 was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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