When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
MICHAEL CAINEBooks were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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