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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’

Michael Caine

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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Book Castle Library Myself Window World
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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Culture Hate Myself People Tolerance World
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Calm Hard Work Hustle Myself Surface
I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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Life Myself See Sight
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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Act Disappear Myself Person Reality
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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Age Father Lover Moments Movie Reading Scripture Time Yourself
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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Best Character Steal Yourself
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.
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Bad Herself Quite Wonderful Writing
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.
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Choice Place Time Yourself
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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Ideas Movie Person Reality Watch Yourself
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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Easy Growth Hard Life Meaning Right
Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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Avoid Choice Difficult Inspirational Perspective Yourself
I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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Achievement Battle Life Myself Time
I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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Control Environment Myself Quiet Subtle
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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Enjoyment Funny Laughter People Praise Story Yourself
If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Control Director Movie Power Yourself

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’

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