I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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.
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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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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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.
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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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