People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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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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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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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