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 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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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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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 don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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 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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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