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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.

Michael Caine

I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINE

Control Environment Myself Quiet Subtle
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
MICHAEL CAINE

Book Castle Library Myself Window World
I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
MICHAEL CAINE

Bad Character Human Myself Thinking Weakness
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINE

Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
MICHAEL CAINE

Control Director Movie Power Yourself
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
MICHAEL CAINE

Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINE

Freedom Individual Sacrifice Unique Yourself
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enough Greatness Myself Old Opinion
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
MICHAEL CAINE

Movie Myself People Screen Sympathy
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
MICHAEL CAINE

Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Family Home Life Moments Myself Professional Ruth
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Nasty Weakness
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Age Play Research Time

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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