I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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There’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.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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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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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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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 enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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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