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.
MICHAEL CAINETo me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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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 don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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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 never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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