I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEI 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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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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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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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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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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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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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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