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.
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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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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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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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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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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get 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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A 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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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