In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
MICHAEL CAINEWhen 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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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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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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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