To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEI read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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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 have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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