My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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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’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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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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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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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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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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