Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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How can I change me to suit the script?
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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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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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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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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
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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 don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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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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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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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.