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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

Michael Caine

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
MICHAEL CAINE

Age Children Father Relationship Religion Talk
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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Enjoyment Learning Life Yourself
You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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Freedom Individual Sacrifice Unique Yourself
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Myself Patience Reward Time
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
MICHAEL CAINE

Enough Greatness Myself Old Opinion
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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Culture Hate Myself People Tolerance World
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
I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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Account Built Myself See Sight Terrible Terrific
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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Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
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 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
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Director Follow Home Leadership Planning Window Yourself
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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Enough Fast Human Listening Nature People Powerful Rule Speak
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.
MICHAEL CAINE

Diamond Gemstone Improvement Money Movie Myself People
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
MICHAEL CAINE

Mom Money Myself Understand Unknown Worth
Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINE

Excuse Game Growth Man Myself Obsession Young

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