To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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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 don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get 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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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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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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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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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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.
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