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You Must Always Steal, But Only From The Best People. Steal Any Trick That Looks Worthwhile. If You See Vivien Leigh Or Robert Deniro Or Meryl Streep Do Something Stunningly Effective, And You Can Analyze How He Or She Did It, Then Pinch It. Because You Can Be Sure That They Stole It In The First Place.

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You Must Always Steal,

Michael Caine

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You Must Always Steal, But Only From The Best People. Steal Any Trick That Looks Worthwhile. If You See Vivien Leigh Or Robert Deniro Or Meryl Streep Do Something Stunningly Effective, And You Can Analyze How He Or She Did It, Then Pinch It. Because You Can Be Sure That They Stole It In The First Place.

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I Am A Great Admirer Of Other Actors, But I Never Compete With Other Actors. I Always Compete With What I Did Last, And I'm My Own Most Vicious Critic. So I'm Always Trying To Do It Better.

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I Don't Worry About The Last Shot Or The Next Shot. I Concentrate. Every Shot Gets A Clean Slate. And When A Shot Is Over, I Wipe It Out Absolutely. Tell A Joke Or Something. If You Worry About How You Looked, How Well You Did, You'll Go Insane.

I Felt A Tremendous Sadness For Men Who Can't Deal With A Woman Of Their Own Age.

My View Is That You Should Always Remake Failures Because Then You've Got Nowhere To Go But Up.

I Must Admit, The Only Reason I Joined An Amateur Dramatic Society Is Because I Couldn't Get To Kiss Any Girls - I Was Chasing Girls All The Time - And So I Thought If I Join It, There Might Be Some Love Scenes. And There Was A Particular Girl And I Thought I Might Get To Kiss Amy. I Never Did Get To Kiss Amy But I Did Get To Kiss Elizabeth Taylor, So It Was All Right, A Lot Later.

I Need A Challenge 'cause I Don't Get The Girl Anymore.

God Willing, Even I Might Scrape A Nomination.

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What A Lot Of People Dont Realize About Gangs, In My Opinion, Is That A Gang Is Not There To Attack You. Eighty Percent Of The People In A Gang Are There To Stop Anyone From Attacking Them. You Join A Gang For Protection, Not To Go Out And Hit Someone.

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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.

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I'm Looking For Me To Disappear, And The Acting To Disappear, And All You See Is A Real Person.

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I Learn The Whole Time. I Think It Would Be Dull If I Thought I Was Going To Work And Wouldn't Find Something New. We Always Learn.

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Books Were My Window On The World. Growing Up At The Elephant And Castle, Which Was Very Rough, My Paradise Was The Library.

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Ive Read An Awful Lot Of Books, Ive Read Alot Of Awful Books

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