Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
MICHAEL CAINESave your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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