I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINEDo 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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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 never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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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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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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