Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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