You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINEBe like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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