Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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 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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When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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 spent my life in the library reading books.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
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Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
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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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I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
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But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.