My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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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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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