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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

Michael Caine

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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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
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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Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Excuse Game Growth Man Myself Obsession Young
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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Culture Hate Myself People Tolerance World
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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Character Darkness Form Myself View World
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Alternative Best Growth Myself Old
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Act Competition Goodness Lose Movie
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Movie Operation Theatre
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Myself Patience Reward Time
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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Actor Better Compete Criticism Greatness Myself Try
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself
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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Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
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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Character Happiness Mirror Myself People Play
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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Father Food Goodness Growth Money Myself Occupation Steal
I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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Fulfill Greatness Life Time
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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Believe Cake Deep Mindset Pieces Politics Yourself
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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Man Myself Old Start Theatre Time
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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Burn Logic Man Negotiation Reason World
I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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Bad Character Human Myself Thinking Weakness
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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Destination Journey Myself People Thinking
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Language Opposite Speech
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Funny Movie Scene Yourself
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Age Money Old Save Thinking Yourself

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