My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
MICHAEL CAINEActing is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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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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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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You’ve got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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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!
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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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