A Quote by Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

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Acting Laser Movie Operation Scalpel Theater

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Michael Caine
English - Actor
Born: March 14, 1933

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Mahatma Gandhi

One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.

Joseph Murray

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.

Michael Lewis

I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.

William Hurt

I went to theater school in France, and when I finished I thought I would never go back to acting again. I don't want to be acting in theater. It's not for me. I'm sick of all this theater world, all these actors, and all that.

Tomas Lemarquis

I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.

Richard Burton

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.