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.
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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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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 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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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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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What 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.
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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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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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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