For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
MICHAEL CAINEFor all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
MICHAEL CAINEI have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
MICHAEL CAINEI usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINEFunny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
MICHAEL CAINEI 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.
MICHAEL CAINEI have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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 CAINEYou start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
MICHAEL CAINEI enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINEDon’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.
MICHAEL CAINEI am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
MICHAEL CAINESave your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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.
MICHAEL CAINESome 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.
MICHAEL CAINEAbout 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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