I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
MICHAEL CAINETo me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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 the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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 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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