The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
MICHAEL CAINEIt’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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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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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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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