Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
MICHAEL CAINEA 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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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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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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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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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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