I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINEI think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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There 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.
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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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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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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 think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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