Michael Caine Quotes
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
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When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
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I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.
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Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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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 didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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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.
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I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
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I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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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.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
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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 have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.
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I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.