Michael Caine Quotes
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
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I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
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My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
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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 meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
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I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.
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Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.
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There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
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By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
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I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
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I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
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