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.
MICHAEL CAINEWhen you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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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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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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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