Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
MICHAEL CAINEDon’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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 never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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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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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.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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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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