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Michael Caine QUOTES

Michael Caine QUOTES

1 " ...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. "

― Michael Caine

2 " I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display. "

― Michael Caine , The Elephant to Hollywood

3 " Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. "

― Michael Caine

4 " There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. "

― Michael Caine

5 " Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books "

― Michael Caine

6 " Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life. "

― Michael Caine

7 " It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over. "

― Michael Caine , The Elephant to Hollywood

8 " Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. "

― Michael Caine

9 " you lose your temper in front of people you do not know, you lose their respect and it is almost impossible to win it back. You must keep control—if you cannot control yourself, then you have no chance of controlling others. "

― Michael Caine , The Elephant to Hollywood

10 " I told him that the lawyers were always saying 'You can't say that you'll get sued.' He said to me, 'Write fiction Michael, you can tell the truth.' (Kirk Douglas to Michael Caine) "

― Michael Caine , What's It All About

11 " something I loved and trying to do it as well as I possibly could. In the end if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be that: find what you love, and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream and, even if you never catch it, you’ll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing and God: even if you don’t believe in him, he believes in you. And when all of that runs out, use the difficulty. "

― Michael Caine , Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

12 " Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am, and either I am needed as that or I'm not suitable anyway. "

― Michael Caine , Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making

13 " I can't really act - I'm just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out. "

― Michael Caine

14 " Michael,” he said, with that wolfish Nicholson grin, “it has been proved that people who are left-handed die earlier than smokers. I am right-handed, so I am ahead of the game. "

― Michael Caine , The Elephant to Hollywood

15 " In a close-up, choose just one eye of the actor you’re playing opposite, don’t skip between the eyes or you will just look shifty; "

― Michael Caine , The Elephant to Hollywood

16 " I don’t want to screw up today’s work and tomorrow’s worrying about yesterday’s and I don’t want to focus on what it looks like on the outside when the performance has to come from within me. I want to be in the moment now, getting it right from the inside. "

― Michael Caine , Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

17 " Isaacs, the man who used to sell Dad his jellied "

― Michael Caine , The Elephant to Hollywood

18 " Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath. "

― Michael Caine

19 " Instead, my biggest piece of advice to anyone just starting out, or to anyone who feels like they are taking a wrong turn along the way, is this. Find something you want to do and learn how to do it really well. Take what you got and make the most of it. Learn how to do something, whatever it is, you would choose to do for nothing. Whatever it is, when you are doing it, it makes you feel amazing and most yourself. Throw yourself into it. Challenge yourself to be the best you can be. We can’t all be famous actors. But, if you can find something you love and if that something will also pay the bills, you will be on your way to your own personal paradise. "

― Michael Caine , Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

20 " When you are prepared, you are able to subdue your fear, control your nerves, channel your energy, and enter that state of highly alert relaxation that is spontaneity’s best friend. "

― Michael Caine , Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life