Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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 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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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 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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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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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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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 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.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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