The trouble with women? Elbows.
MICHAEL CAINEDo I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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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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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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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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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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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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 every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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