Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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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 spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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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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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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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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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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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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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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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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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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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.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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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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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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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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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.