It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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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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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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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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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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