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Michael Caine

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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Act Advice Friendship Low Slow Talk
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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Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Funny Movie Scene 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
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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Enough Greatness Myself Old Opinion
You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Freedom Individual Sacrifice Unique Yourself
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
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Alternative Best Growth Myself Old
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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Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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Burn Logic Man Negotiation Reason World
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Action Work Yourself
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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Believe Cake Deep Mindset Pieces Politics Yourself
When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Climb Deep Reach Success Top Yourself
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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Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
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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Comedy Drama Oneself Writing
I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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Account Built Myself See Sight Terrible Terrific

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