Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINEIt’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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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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.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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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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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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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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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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