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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Michael Caine

I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINE

Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
MICHAEL CAINE

Lesson Life Past Sight Trip Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Clothes Himself Man Material Notice Way
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Fun Life Myself Old Regard Regret Talk
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
MICHAEL CAINE

Control Director Movie Power Yourself
A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
MICHAEL CAINE

Body Growth Man Old Spirit Young
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
MICHAEL CAINE

Advice Listening Myself People
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Age Play Research Time
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINE

Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINE

Choice Drugs Happiness Yourself
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINE

Excuse Game Growth Man Myself Obsession Young
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Poor Preference Rich

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