Michael Caine Quotes
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
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Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.
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Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story
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I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.
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Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
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I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
