Michael Caine Quotes

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

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• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Good
  • Think
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• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Ballplayers

• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Work
  • Love
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• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Job
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• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
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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.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
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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.

  

  Al Pacino
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• Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

  

  Al Pacino
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  • Necessary

• I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Writing
  • Texas
  • Moved

• 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.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
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  • Respect

• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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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.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • World
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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.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Guy
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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.

  

  Adam Sandler
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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.

  

  Edward Furlong
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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.

  

  Kristen Stewart
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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.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Life
  • Time
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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.

  

  George Clooney
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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.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
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• I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Teacher
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  • Expected

• Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Way
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  • Praying

• Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Guitar
  • Courses
  • Steel

• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

  

  Michael Caine
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