Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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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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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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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 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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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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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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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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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 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've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.