Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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 read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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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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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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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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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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