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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

Michael Caine

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINE

Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINE

Action Work Yourself
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
MICHAEL CAINE

Man Myself Old Start Theatre Time
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enough Greatness Myself Old Opinion
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
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
When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
MICHAEL CAINE

Climb Deep Reach Success Top Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Car Drive Eat Myself Poor Youth
I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
MICHAEL CAINE

Movie Myself People Screen Sympathy
Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
MICHAEL CAINE

Day Smart Stop Time Truth
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINE

Dreams Impossible Oneself
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
MICHAEL CAINE

Change Difference Movie
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINE

Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
MICHAEL CAINE

Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
MICHAEL CAINE

Movie Operation Theatre
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

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

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