I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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