Michael Caine Quotes
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You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.
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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 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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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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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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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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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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I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
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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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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 spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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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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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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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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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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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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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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80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
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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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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 don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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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.