For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
MICHAEL CAINEThe trouble with women? Elbows.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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?’
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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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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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