I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
MICHAEL CAINEFor all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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