This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
MICHAEL CAINEWhen 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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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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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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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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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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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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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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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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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