I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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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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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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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 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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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