English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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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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