Michael Caine Quotes
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.
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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 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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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've always played very human sort of characters.
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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 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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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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 done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
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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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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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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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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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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 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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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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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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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.