I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
MICHAEL CAINEI always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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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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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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