It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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 always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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