Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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 not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence 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 always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I’m an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn’t just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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