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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.

Michael Caine

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
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Myself Nasty Weakness
I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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Movie Myself People Screen Sympathy
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Alternative Best Growth Myself Old
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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Culture Hate Myself People Tolerance World
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’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Achievement Battle Life Myself 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
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
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
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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Clothes Himself Man Material Notice Way
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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Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Act Competition Goodness Lose Movie
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

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