Michael Caine Quotes
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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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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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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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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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 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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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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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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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
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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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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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When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
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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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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
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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.