Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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.
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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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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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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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You’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.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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