I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEFunny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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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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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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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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