It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
MICHAEL CAINEBe patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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I 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.
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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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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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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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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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