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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

Michael Caine

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

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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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 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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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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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
MICHAEL CAINE

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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.
MICHAEL CAINE

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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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.
MICHAEL CAINE

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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

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