Michael Caine Quotes
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Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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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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Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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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 won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
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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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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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.