Michael Caine Quotes
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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 have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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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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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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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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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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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 spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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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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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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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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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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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.