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.
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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I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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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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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
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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 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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I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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