I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
MICHAEL CAINEFor all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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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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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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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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