Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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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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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've always played very human sort of characters.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.
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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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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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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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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
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How can I change me to suit the script?
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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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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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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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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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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'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.