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.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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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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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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