Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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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 doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
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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 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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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
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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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How can I change me to suit the script?
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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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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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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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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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.