Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. 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 admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.
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I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.