Michael Caine Quotes

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

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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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Like
  • Moral
  • Feel

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

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Ballplayers

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

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

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Work
  • Love
  • Me

• Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Time
  • Actors
  • Working

• I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Views
  • Conservative
  • Radical

• You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Actors
  • Illusions
  • Pigeons

• 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
  • Actors
  • Healthy
  • Repeats

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

  

  Al Pacino
  • Famous
  • Actors
  • Necessary

• I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Actors

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Risk

• I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • True
  • Movie
  • Acting

• For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Acting

• One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Giving
  • Facts
  • Views

• You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Question
  • Judgment
  • Views

• I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Serious
  • Drama
  • Period

• [John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Views

• Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.

  

  Anthony Heald
  • Job
  • Actors
  • Artists

• You're just into it at that point and you're alive on stage and you get away with mischief and good stuff and you know, I don't know many adults who get to do that.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • You
  • Stage
  • Alive

• A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Emotion

• I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Result
  • Worship of God
  • Prostrate

• My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Views
  • Psychiatrist