I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINEMy most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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