Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m the audience’s representative on earth.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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