To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEThis is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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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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