It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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 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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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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