You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
MICHAEL CAINE
I’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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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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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 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.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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