Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I 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.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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There 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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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First 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.
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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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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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