Michael Caine Quotes
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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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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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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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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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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 try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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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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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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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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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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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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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 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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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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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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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.