Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
MICHAEL CAINEDon’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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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 looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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