I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINEFunny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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