First 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.
MICHAEL CAINEIn my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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 loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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