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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Michael Caine

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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Attack Hit Opinion People Protection Yourself
The trouble with women? Elbows.
MICHAEL CAINE

Hands Trouble Woman
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Clothes Himself Man Material Notice Way
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Choice Place Time Yourself
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Poor Preference Rich
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enough Greatness Myself Old Opinion
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
MICHAEL CAINE

Character Darkness Form Myself View World
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
MICHAEL CAINE

Man Myself Old Start Theatre Time
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
MICHAEL CAINE

Father Food Goodness Growth Money Myself Occupation Steal
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINE

Choice Drugs Happiness Yourself
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Nasty Weakness

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