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Movie Quotes by Michael Caine
- 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…
- Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
- Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
- When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
- If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
- To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
- For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became…
- To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme…
More Movie Quotes
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- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon
- The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy… — Kevin Bacon
- The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script. — David Bailey
- I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean… — Amy Adams
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. — Alec Baldwin