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.
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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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 feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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