Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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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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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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 my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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