There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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 best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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 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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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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 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 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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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 think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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