Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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.
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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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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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 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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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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.
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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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