To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEIt’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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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’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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