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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Michael Caine

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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Fun Life Myself Old Regard Regret Talk
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Age Deal Feeling Man Myself Sadness Woman
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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Father Food Goodness Growth Money Myself Occupation Steal
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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Man Myself Old Start Theatre Time
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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Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
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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Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
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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Choice Movie Myself Preference Repeat
Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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Avoid Choice Difficult Inspirational Perspective Yourself
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Choice Drugs Happiness Yourself
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Actor Age Play Research Time
A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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Destination Journey Myself People Thinking
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Control Director Movie Power Yourself
It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Lesson Life Past Sight Trip Yourself
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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Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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Emotion Family Friendship Life Myself Person Relationship
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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Best Character Steal Yourself
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
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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Enough Greatness Myself Old Opinion
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Accomplishment Education Heart Myself Wisdom
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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Head Life Listening Myself Time
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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Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Happiness Understand Woman
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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Change Difference Movie

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