There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
MICHAEL CAINEI enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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 I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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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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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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 old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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