Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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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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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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