Michael Caine Quotes
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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 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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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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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.
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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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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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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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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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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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80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
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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 don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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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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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.
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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'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.