Michael Caine Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Michael Caine Quotes and Sayings
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A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
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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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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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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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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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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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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
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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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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
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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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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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Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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