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?’
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
-
-
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
MICHAEL CAINE -
It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
MICHAEL CAINE -
It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
MICHAEL CAINE -
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINE -
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.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
MICHAEL CAINE -
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
MICHAEL CAINE -
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.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINE