When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
MICHAEL CAINEI don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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 had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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