Michael Caine Quotes
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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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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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
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As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
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As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
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I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.
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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 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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But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.
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Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
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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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I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
