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.
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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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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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’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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