Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
MICHAEL CAINEI don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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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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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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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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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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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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