Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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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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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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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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I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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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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You're never too old to be crazy.
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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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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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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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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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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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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.
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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 had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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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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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.