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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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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When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.
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Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
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It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
