To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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 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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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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?’
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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.
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