I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINEPeople 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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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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