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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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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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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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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I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
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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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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
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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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I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.
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I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
