English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Anyone 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’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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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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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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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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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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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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