Michael Caine Quotes
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
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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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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.
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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've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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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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If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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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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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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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 feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.