Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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