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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

Michael Caine

I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINE

Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
MICHAEL CAINE

Father Food Goodness Growth Money Myself Occupation Steal
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
What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
MICHAEL CAINE

Attack Hit Opinion People Protection Yourself
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
MICHAEL CAINE

Burn Logic Man Negotiation Reason World
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINE

Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
MICHAEL CAINE

Character Darkness Form Myself View World
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINE

Action Work Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINE

Control Environment Myself Quiet Subtle
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
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
The trouble with women? Elbows.
MICHAEL CAINE

Hands Trouble Woman
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINE

Head Life Listening Myself Time
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
MICHAEL CAINE

Character Happiness Mirror Myself People Play

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