For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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 old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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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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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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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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