I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEPeople 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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 patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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