Michael Caine Quotes
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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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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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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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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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'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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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 am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
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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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If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
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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 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.
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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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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
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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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I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.