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.
MICHAEL CAINEWhat a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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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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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