I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEA lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
MICHAEL CAINEI prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
MICHAEL CAINEFunny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
MICHAEL CAINEBooks were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
MICHAEL CAINEYou start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
MICHAEL CAINEAs 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.
MICHAEL CAINEAt 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.
MICHAEL CAINEYou’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
MICHAEL CAINEDo 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.
MICHAEL CAINESave your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINEI was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
MICHAEL CAINEI read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEI never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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