There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
MICHAEL CAINEI don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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Don’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.
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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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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