I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
MICHAEL CAINEI never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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