Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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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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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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I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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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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