I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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.
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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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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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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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