Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
MICHAEL CAINEI have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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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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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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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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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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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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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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 think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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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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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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