Michael Caine Quotes
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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 don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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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.
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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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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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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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I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.
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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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Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.
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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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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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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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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 learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.
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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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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
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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.