I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINEAt 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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 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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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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