Michael Caine Quotes

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• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
• Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
• I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
• 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…
• I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
• My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
• I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well…
• I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
• I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
• I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
• I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
• The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
• For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
• When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
• 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.
• I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
• I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
• Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
• In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a…
• The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort…

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