Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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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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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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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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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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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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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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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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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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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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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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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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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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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.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.