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.
MICHAEL CAINEI have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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 always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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