I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
MICHAEL CAINEA man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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 have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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