I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINESome men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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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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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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