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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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