Michael Caine Quotes
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
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I love actors.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
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I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.
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Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
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All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.
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People can tell what's in beer, eh? Like my brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like.
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My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
