I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINEI usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINEI have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINEI don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
MICHAEL CAINEThere 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.
MICHAEL CAINEMaybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m the audience’s representative on earth.
MICHAEL CAINEA man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
MICHAEL CAINESave your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINEI 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.
MICHAEL CAINEYou’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
MICHAEL CAINEDo I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
MICHAEL CAINEI don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
MICHAEL CAINEIn my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
MICHAEL CAINEFor all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
MICHAEL CAINEEnglish is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
MICHAEL CAINEI 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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