I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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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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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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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.
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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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