The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
MICHAEL CAINE
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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There’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.
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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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