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You Quotes by Michael Caine
- When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
- 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…
- Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
- Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
- 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…
- If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
- Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
- When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
- I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the…
- If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's…
- Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if…
- A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
- When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
- I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
- If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
- 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…
- But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left…
- You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often…
- I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place…
- You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
- To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme…
- One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
- You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide