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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.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
Michael Caine
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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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.
Michael Caine -
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
Michael Caine -
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine
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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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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
Michael Caine -
I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
Michael Caine -
I spent my life in the library reading books.
Michael Caine -
80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
Michael Caine -
Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
Michael Caine
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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
Michael Caine -
At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
Michael Caine -
It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
Michael Caine
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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.
Michael Caine -
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
Michael Caine -
The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine