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.
MICHAEL CAINEThe trouble with women? Elbows.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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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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 don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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.
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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 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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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