Michael Caine Quotes
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
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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.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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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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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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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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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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I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
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What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
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I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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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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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.