The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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 loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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