Michael Caine Quotes
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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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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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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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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've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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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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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 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 have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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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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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, so I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
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80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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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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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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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 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 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 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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The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.