Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
MICHAEL CAINEAs an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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 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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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 most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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