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?’
MICHAEL CAINE
I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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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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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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