I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINEGreat acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINEI never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
MICHAEL CAINEI enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINEWhat 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.
MICHAEL CAINEFunny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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 CAINEI’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
MICHAEL CAINEI think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
MICHAEL CAINEBe patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m the audience’s representative on earth.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
MICHAEL CAINEI don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
MICHAEL CAINEDon’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
MICHAEL CAINEFirst of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
MICHAEL CAINE