I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy. Michael Caine More Quotes by Michael Caine More Quotes From Michael Caine Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them Michael Caine difficulty ifs use I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. Michael Caine old-things want thinking Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. Michael Caine scripts writing drama When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins. Michael Caine climbs hiking acting It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script. Michael Caine awards careers winning Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. Michael Caine growing-up elephants book Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines. Michael Caine acting waiting listening 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 he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you. Michael Caine movie acting thinking My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be. Michael Caine wife stars half I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me. Michael Caine emotion blood looks I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again. Michael Caine great-times My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. Michael Caine pals too-much acting Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser Michael Caine lasers theater acting In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were. Michael Caine actors acting giving My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff. Michael Caine causes stuff father Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses. Michael Caine competition acting done If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. Michael Caine movie actors directors The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. Michael Caine guy class people Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar. Michael Caine oscars patient years English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. Michael Caine speech texas opposites
