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.
MICHAEL CAINEI have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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