As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
MICHAEL CAINEFirst of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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