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 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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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