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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

Michael Caine

Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Money Old Save Thinking Yourself
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINE

Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Patience Reward Time
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
MICHAEL CAINE

Dreams Impossible Oneself
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Cinema Easy Goodness Machine Movie Stage Yourself
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
MICHAEL CAINE

Control Environment Myself Quiet Subtle
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINE

Action Work Yourself
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Believe Cake Deep Mindset Pieces Politics Yourself
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINE

Head Life Listening Myself Time
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
MICHAEL CAINE

Act Advice Friendship Low Slow Talk
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
MICHAEL CAINE

Language Opposite Speech
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
MICHAEL CAINE

Myself Poor Preference Rich
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?’
MICHAEL CAINE

Change Difference Movie

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