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Michael Caine

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Book Influence Mad Myself Reading
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Movie Operation Theatre
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Actor Age Play Research Time
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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Father Food Goodness Growth Money Myself Occupation Steal
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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Enough Fast Human Listening Nature People Powerful Rule Speak
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
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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Diamond Gemstone Improvement Money Movie Myself People
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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Emotion Family Friendship Life Myself Person Relationship
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Advice Friendship Low Slow Talk
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
MICHAEL CAINE

Best Character Steal Yourself
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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Change Difference Movie
When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Climb Deep Reach Success Top Yourself
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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Character Company Health Myself Nature Recreation

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