Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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 had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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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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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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