I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
MICHAEL CAINEThe best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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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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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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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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