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 CAINEAbout Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun 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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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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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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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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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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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