I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
MICHAEL CAINEIt’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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 start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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 trouble with women? Elbows.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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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