Michael Caine Quotes About Acting
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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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 he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.
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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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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 don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
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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 notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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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.
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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
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