Michael Caine Quotes
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
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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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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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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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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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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
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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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I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
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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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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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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 won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.