Michael Caine Quotes
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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.
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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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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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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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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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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 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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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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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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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'm the audience's representative on earth.
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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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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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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 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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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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How can I change me to suit the script?