To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEIt’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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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 enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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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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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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 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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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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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