It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
MICHAEL CAINEMy understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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