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!
MICHAEL CAINEHollywood 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!
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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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’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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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 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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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