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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.

Michael Caine

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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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Actor Age Play Research Time
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Movie Operation Theatre
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Myself Nasty Weakness
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Happiness Understand Woman
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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Choice Movie Myself Preference Repeat
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Act Competition Goodness Lose Movie
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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Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
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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Act Award Bad Brilliant Career Difficult Easy Hard Scripture
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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Clothes Himself Man Material Notice Way
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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Believe God Life Yourself
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Action Work Yourself
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Enjoyment Learning Life Yourself
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Alternative Best Growth Myself Old
In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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Concern Performance Yourself

I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.

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