I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
MICHAEL CAINEI always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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