I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEThe 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.
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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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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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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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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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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