You’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 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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