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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.

Michael Caine

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
MICHAEL CAINE

Choice Movie Myself Preference Repeat
You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINE

Freedom Individual Sacrifice Unique Yourself
The trouble with women? Elbows.
MICHAEL CAINE

Hands Trouble Woman
When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
MICHAEL CAINE

Believe Cake Deep Mindset Pieces Politics Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Diamond Gemstone Improvement Money Movie Myself People
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 CAINE

Enough Fast Human Listening Nature People Powerful Rule Speak
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
MICHAEL CAINE

Clothes Himself Man Material Notice Way
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Concern Performance Yourself
Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
MICHAEL CAINE

Comedy Drama Oneself Writing
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINE

Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
MICHAEL CAINE

Movie Operation Theatre
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself
I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
MICHAEL CAINE

Life Myself See Sight
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
MICHAEL CAINE

Language Opposite Speech
I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
MICHAEL CAINE

Marriage Myself Property Respect Togetherness Woman

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