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.
MICHAEL CAINEI 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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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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 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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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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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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