I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINEMaybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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?’
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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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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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When 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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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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