I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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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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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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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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