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 CAINEBe patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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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 am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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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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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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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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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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