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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.

Michael Caine

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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Better Compete Criticism Greatness Myself Try
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Development Life Myself Old Roam Thinking
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINE

Choice Drugs Happiness Yourself
I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
MICHAEL CAINE

Emotion Family Friendship Life Myself Person Relationship
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Poor Preference Rich
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINE

Head Life Listening Myself Time
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Nasty Weakness
I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
MICHAEL CAINE

Day Myself Optimistic Regret
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
MICHAEL CAINE

Character Darkness Form Myself View World
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINE

Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Car Drive Eat Myself Poor Youth

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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