Michael Caine Quotes
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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 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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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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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've always played very human sort of characters.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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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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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 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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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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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 spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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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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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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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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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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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 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.