Michael Caine Quotes
When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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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 love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
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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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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
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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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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
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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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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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It's not a casting call. This is not a test of who should be on the evening news. It's a test of how best to present a broadcast that plays a distinctive and important role in today's crowded news landscape.
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My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
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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 don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
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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 never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
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I'm a professional at what I do. I'm an actor. I've been on enough movie sets to know the difference between a stage light and an apple box. I know the difference. Why? Because I've been around it long enough and I know.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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We all live in a world where we can go to a funeral in the morning and go to a wedding in the evening and we survive it. It's the way the world is built, especially when you look at the various people surrounding the Mediterranean way of life.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
