Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEThe difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
More Michael Caine Quotes
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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 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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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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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 don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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 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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