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I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
Michael Caine -
In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.
Michael Caine
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Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.
Michael Caine -
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Michael Caine -
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
Michael Caine -
They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
Michael Caine -
Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.
Michael Caine -
I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.
Michael Caine
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
Michael Caine -
I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
Michael Caine -
I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
Michael Caine -
I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
Michael Caine
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I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
Michael Caine -
Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
Michael Caine -
I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol, but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.
Michael Caine -
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
Michael Caine -
You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
Michael Caine -
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
Michael Caine -
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
Michael Caine -
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
Michael Caine