Michael Caine Quotes

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

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• 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

• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Creative

• Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Fight
  • Actors
  • Possible

• Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Bad
  • Focus
  • Actors

• 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

• The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Want
  • Actors
  • Use

• 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

• 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

• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Present
  • Actors
  • Natural

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

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Actors
  • Directors

• 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

• 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

• Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Actors
  • Credit

• I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Want

• 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
  • Work

• As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Audience
  • Actors

• Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Kind
  • Actors
  • Scene

• You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.

  

  Melissa De Sousa
  • Stop
  • Face
  • Cannot

• Luxembourg is such a small country that we always have to reinvent ourselves and take on a certain risk to succeed.

  

  Etienne Schneider
  • Risk
  • Succeed

• If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors