Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
MICHAEL CAINEThe trouble with women? Elbows.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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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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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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