Michael Caine Quotes
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I 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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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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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'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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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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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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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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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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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 just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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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 try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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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 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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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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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.