I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
MICHAEL CAINEThe old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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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.
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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 father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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