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!
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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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 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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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 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’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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