Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
MICHAEL CAINEAnyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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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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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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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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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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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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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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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