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Michael Caine

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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Believe Cake Deep Mindset Pieces Politics Yourself
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.
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Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch 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
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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Enough Fast Human Listening Nature People Powerful Rule Speak
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINE

Action Work Yourself
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Movie Operation Theatre
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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Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
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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Day Myself Optimistic Regret
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Intelligence Money Myself Nightmare
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Advice Friendship Low Slow Talk
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
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Better Compete Criticism Greatness Myself Try
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Average Choice Greatness Myself Pay Role
The trouble with women? Elbows.
MICHAEL CAINE

Hands Trouble Woman
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

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