My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
MICHAEL CAINEAbout Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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.
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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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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