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?’
MICHAEL CAINEIt’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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