Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
MICHAEL CAINEI feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others’ properties.
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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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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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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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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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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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