I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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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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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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