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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

Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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Day Smart Stop Time Truth
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Funny Movie Scene Yourself
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Dreams Impossible Oneself
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Accomplishment Education Heart Myself Wisdom
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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Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Myself Patience Reward Time
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
Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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Choice Place Time Yourself
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Advice Listening Myself People
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
You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself
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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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Day Myself Optimistic Regret
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
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Enjoyment Learning Life Yourself
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
It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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Each Other Space Vital Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Myself Nasty Weakness
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 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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Choice Movie Myself Preference Repeat

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