Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINEI read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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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 never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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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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