You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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 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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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