I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINEI felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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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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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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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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