I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINEThere 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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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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 feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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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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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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