I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINEI never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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Some 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.
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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