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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.

Michael Caine

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Movie Operation Theatre
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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Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Excuse Game Growth Man Myself Obsession Young
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Dreams Impossible Oneself
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Climb Deep Reach Success Top Yourself
I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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Marriage Myself Property Respect Togetherness Woman
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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Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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Culture Hate Myself People Tolerance World
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Act Competition Goodness Lose Movie
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Age Deal Feeling Man Myself Sadness Woman
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Happiness Understand Woman
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Myself Nasty Weakness
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Action Work Yourself
Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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Day Smart Stop Time Truth
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Age Money Old Save Thinking Yourself
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
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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Age Car Drive Eat Myself Poor Youth
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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Enough Feeling Knowledge Myself Old Stay
You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Freedom Individual Sacrifice Unique Yourself
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
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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Character Darkness Form Myself View World
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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Clothes Himself Man Material Notice Way
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Myself Patience Reward Time
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself

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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