Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINEHollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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That 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.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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 never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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 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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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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.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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