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Actor Quotes by Michael Caine
- I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
- The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
- I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
- The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort…
- As an actor, I'll play anything.
- I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
- I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
- I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm…
- Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if…
- The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to…
- Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
- If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you…
- The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
- If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
- In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
- In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
- I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I…
- You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often…
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