Michael Caine Quotes

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

Michael Caine

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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
  • Feel
  • Moral

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

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Ballplayers

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• 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 follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Age
  • Career
  • See

• 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

• When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Actors

• 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

• The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.

  

  Nigel Cole
  • Actors
  • Difficult
  • Producers

• Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

  

  Stuart Townsend
  • Actors
  • Recognized
  • Input

• I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • America

• Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Stop

• Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time

• 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