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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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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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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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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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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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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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 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 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 have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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