Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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 feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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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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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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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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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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What 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.
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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 bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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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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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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