I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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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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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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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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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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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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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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