Michael Caine Quotes
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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.
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I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.
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I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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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.
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I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
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I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
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My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
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My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
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If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.
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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
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It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'
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To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.
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You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.