You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINEI never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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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?’
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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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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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