Michael Caine Quotes
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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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.
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I want the reader to get the feeling that the text is trying to rearrange itself, upon every reading or in the act of reading. I don't want the presentation of narrative; I want a life told out of order.
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I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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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.
