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.
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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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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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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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