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.
MICHAEL CAINEI prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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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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I was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
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I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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