I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
MICHAEL CAINEYou don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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