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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Michael Caine

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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Burn Logic Man Negotiation Reason World
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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Comedy Drama Oneself Writing
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Language Opposite Speech
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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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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Act Advice Friendship Low Slow Talk
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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Change Difference Movie
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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Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
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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Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
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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Account Built Myself See Sight Terrible Terrific
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Age Deal Feeling Man Myself Sadness Woman
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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Fulfill Greatness Life Time
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Actor Age Play Research Time
When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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Believe Cake Deep Mindset Pieces Politics Yourself
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Choice Drugs Happiness Yourself
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself

Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

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