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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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
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I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.
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I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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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.
