I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
MICHAEL CAINEThe best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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.
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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.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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