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.
MICHAEL CAINEAs 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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?’
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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