If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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 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 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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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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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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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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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