I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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