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.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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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.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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