I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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 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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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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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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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’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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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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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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