You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINEMaybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he’s that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it’s not, I assure you.
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I 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!
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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 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 usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you’ve had a life like mine, you have to.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
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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 don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
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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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To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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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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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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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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