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.
MICHAEL CAINEYou can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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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.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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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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