Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
MICHAEL CAINEThat to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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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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