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 CAINEI’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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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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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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