I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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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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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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