Michael Caine Quotes
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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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 sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
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Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
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Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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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 want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
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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've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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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 can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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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 is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
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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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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.