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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.

Michael Caine

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Actor Age Play Research Time
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
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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Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Choice Drugs Happiness Yourself
There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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Bad Herself Quite Wonderful Writing
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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Emotion Family Friendship Life Myself Person Relationship
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Book Influence Mad Myself Reading
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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Fulfill Greatness Life Time
I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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Enough Feeling Knowledge Myself Old Stay
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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Destination Journey Myself People Thinking
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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Diamond Gemstone Improvement Money Movie Myself People
I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Marriage Myself Property Respect Togetherness Woman
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.
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Enough Fast Human Listening Nature People Powerful Rule Speak
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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Character Darkness Form Myself View World
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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Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
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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Change Difference Movie
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Action Work Yourself
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Myself Patience Reward Time
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Control Director Movie Power Yourself
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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Father Food Goodness Growth Money Myself Occupation Steal
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Funny Movie Scene Yourself
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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Believe Cake Deep Mindset Pieces Politics Yourself
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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Character Happiness Mirror Myself People Play

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