I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
MICHAEL CAINEWhat a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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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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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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