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

Michael Caine

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
MICHAEL CAINE

Character Company Health Myself Nature Recreation
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
MICHAEL CAINE

Fulfill Greatness Life Time
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Happiness Understand Woman
Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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Day Smart Stop Time Truth
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Age Deal Feeling Man Myself Sadness Woman
I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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Interesting Love Myself People Play Screen
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Book Influence Mad Myself Reading
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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Destination Journey Myself People Thinking
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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Change Difference Movie
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Language Opposite Speech
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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Family Home Life Moments Myself Professional Ruth
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
When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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Climb Deep Reach Success Top Yourself
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Age Money Old Save Thinking Yourself
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.
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Actor Attitude Digital Forever Learning Movie Myself
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I’m my own most vicious critic. So I’m always trying to do it better.
MICHAEL CAINE

Actor Better Compete Criticism Greatness Myself Try
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
MICHAEL CAINE

Believe God Life Yourself
I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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Bad Character Human Myself Thinking Weakness
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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Action Work Yourself
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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Day Myself Optimistic Regret
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
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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Comedy Drama Oneself Writing
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Excuse Game Growth Man Myself Obsession Young
There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
MICHAEL CAINE

Culture Hate Myself People Tolerance World
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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Enough Greatness Myself Old Opinion

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

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