Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINEIn my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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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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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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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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don’t have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it’s a nightmare. So, I like film – nice short takes.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
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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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