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.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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