Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINEMy 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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