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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

Michael Caine

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
MICHAEL CAINE

Man Myself Old Start Theatre Time
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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Avoid Choice Difficult Inspirational Perspective Yourself
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Deliver Greatness Listening Yourself
There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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Culture Hate Myself People Tolerance World
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.
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Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
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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Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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Fulfill Greatness Life Time
I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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Bad Character Human Myself Thinking Weakness
What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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Attack Hit Opinion People Protection Yourself
I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Life Myself See Sight
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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Day Myself Optimistic Regret
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Dreams Impossible Oneself
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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Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Accident Fun Pretend Start Yourself
The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Hands Trouble Woman
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Age Deal Feeling Man Myself Sadness Woman
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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Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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Control Environment Myself Quiet Subtle
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
MICHAEL CAINE

Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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Accomplishment Education Heart Myself Wisdom
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself
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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Choice Movie Myself Preference Repeat
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Control Director Movie Power Yourself
It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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Each Other Space Vital Yourself

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