Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEIt’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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