Michael Caine

(7 votes)   I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

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(6 votes)   Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

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(30 votes)   First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Michael Caine
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(28 votes)   The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

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1933-, British-born American Actor, Acting teacher

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(10 votes)   For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

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(9 votes)   Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

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(7 votes)   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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(6 votes)   At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

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(6 votes)   Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

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(6 votes)   English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

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