Michael Caine Quotes
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In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
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I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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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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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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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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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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How can I change me to suit the script?
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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 had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.
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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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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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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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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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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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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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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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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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I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
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I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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 have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.