I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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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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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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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 not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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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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