My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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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 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’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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