Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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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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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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