Michael Caine Quotes
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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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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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
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I grew up in Mumbai.
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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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Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.
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I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
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I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.
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I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.
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It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.
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Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.
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I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.
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That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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What happened basically is that they were doing a figure-8 bus race, and the driver was ejected and run over
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
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I never feel any aggravation from the public.
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
