I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEI have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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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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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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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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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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