It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
MICHAEL CAINEI’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 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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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 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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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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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 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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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 mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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