Michael Caine Quotes
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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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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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.
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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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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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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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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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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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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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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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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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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.