The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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