Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
MICHAEL CAINEThe difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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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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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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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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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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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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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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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