Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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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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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
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My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
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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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I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.
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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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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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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 need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.