Michael Caine Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  Michael Caine

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Bad Day

• You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

  Michael Caine

  Long, Acting, Asking

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.23, Hal Leonard Corporation

• Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

  Michael Caine

  Competition, Acting, Done

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.64, Hal Leonard Corporation

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Regret, Aquarius, Acting

• Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Lasers, Theater

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.9, Hal Leonard Corporation

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Directors, Planning

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.128, Hal Leonard Corporation

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Disrespect, Acting, Looks

• Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Acting, Obsession

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.18, Hal Leonard Corporation

• Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

  Michael Caine

  Waiting, Listening, Acting

• To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Acting, Movie Star

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.137, Hal Leonard Corporation

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Giving, Acting, Actors

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.50, Hal Leonard Corporation

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Acting, Actors

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.88, Hal Leonard Corporation

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  People, Acting, Looks

• My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Pals, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

  Michael Caine

  Hiking, Acting, Climbs

  "Michael Caine And Wife, Shakira Caine, Look Oh So In Love In Vintage Photos". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

• Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Stupid, Silly

• I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

  Michael Caine

  Boys, Doors, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Real, Character, Sleep

  "Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

• I'm the audience's representative on earth.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Earth, Audience

• I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

  Michael Caine

  Real, Acting, Disappear

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

• When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Accents, Ifs

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Real, Ideas, Acting

  Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Movie, Thinking, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Winning, Awards, Careers

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