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 CAINEWhen 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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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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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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