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 CAINEEnglish is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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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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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 was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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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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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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