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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.

Michael Caine

Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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Burn Logic Man Negotiation Reason World
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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Best Character Steal Yourself
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Language Opposite Speech
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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Concern Performance Yourself
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Myself Patience Reward Time
Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Age Money Old Save Thinking Yourself
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Alternative Best Growth Myself Old
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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Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
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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Head Life Listening Myself Time
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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Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Happiness Understand Woman
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
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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Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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Enough Feeling Knowledge Myself Old Stay
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Hands Trouble Woman
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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Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
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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Development Life Myself Old Roam Thinking
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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Character Darkness Form Myself View World
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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Day Myself Optimistic Regret
I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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Audience Earth Myself Representation
It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Lesson Life Past Sight Trip Yourself
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
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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Family Home Life Moments Myself Professional Ruth
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare

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