It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
MICHAEL CAINEA man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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