Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
MICHAEL CAINEI felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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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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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I 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.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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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.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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