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.
MICHAEL CAINEWhen I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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