Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
MICHAEL CAINEMy mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
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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 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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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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