Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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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.
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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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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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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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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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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 my life in the library reading books.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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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 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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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.