Michael Caine Quotes
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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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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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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I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
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A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
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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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Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
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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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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 never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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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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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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Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
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The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
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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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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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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
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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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I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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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.