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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.

Michael Caine

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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Marriage Myself Property Respect Togetherness Woman
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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Diamond Gemstone Improvement Money Movie Myself People
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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Development Life Myself Old Roam Thinking
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?’
MICHAEL CAINE

Change Difference Movie
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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Destination Journey Myself People Thinking
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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Character Company Health Myself Nature Recreation
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Myself Nasty Weakness
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Myself Poor Preference Rich
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Book Influence Mad Myself Reading
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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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
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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Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Fun Life Myself Old Regard Regret Talk
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 CAINE

Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
MICHAEL CAINE

Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself

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 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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