I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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 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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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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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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’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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