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Michael Caine Inspirational Quotes (159)

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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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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They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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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 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 have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
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It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.
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I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.
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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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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
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