I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINEFunny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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 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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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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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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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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