Michael Caine Quotes
Sir Michael Caine, born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in over one hundred films.
(1933 - )
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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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