The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
MICHAEL CAINEI feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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