Michael Caine Quotes
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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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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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 just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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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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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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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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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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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 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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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 have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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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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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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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 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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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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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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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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.