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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

Michael Caine

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Better Compete Criticism Greatness Myself Try
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINE

Alternative Best Growth Myself Old
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINE

Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Development Life Myself Old Roam Thinking
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINE

Head Life Listening Myself Time
Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
MICHAEL CAINE

Comedy Drama Oneself Writing
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
MICHAEL CAINE

Happiness Understand Woman
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Advice Friendship Low Slow Talk
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enough Fast Human Listening Nature People Powerful Rule Speak
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
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!
MICHAEL CAINE

Enough Feeling Knowledge Myself Old Stay
A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
MICHAEL CAINE

Body Growth Man Old Spirit Young
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Patience Reward Time
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
MICHAEL CAINE

Book Castle Library Myself Window World

You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

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