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I Think What Is British About Me Is My Feelings And Awareness Of Others And Their Situations. English People Are Always Known To Be Well Mannered And Cold But We Are Not Cold - We Don't Interfere In Your Situation. If We Are Heartbroken, We Don't Scream In Your Face With Tears - We Go Home And Cry On Our Own.

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Michael Caine

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I Think What Is British About Me Is My Feelings And Awareness Of Others And Their Situations. English People Are Always Known To Be Well Mannered And Cold But We Are Not Cold - We Don't Interfere In Your Situation. If We Are Heartbroken, We Don't Scream In Your Face With Tears - We Go Home And Cry On Our Own.

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I Don't Want To Sound Like Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells, But I Do Think There Should Be Some Sort Of National Service For Young Men.

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I Started With The Firm Conviction That When I Came To The End, I Wanted To Be Regretting The Things That I Had Done, Not The Things I Hadn't.

Oh, What A Shock. My Career Must Be Slipping. This Is The First Time I've Been Available To Pick Up An Award.

The Old Guys Like Me Started In The Theatre. I Was In The Theatre For Nine Years.

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If You Held A Pistol At My Head, I Couldn't Tell You Who They're Going To Vote For Best Actor.

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

Anyone Can Write. But Comedy, You've Got To Do Some Writing. You Get One Comedy Script To Every 20 Dramas.

The Trouble With Women? Elbows.

Be Patient.of Course It Will Come. It Took Me Years To Get An Oscar.

That To Me Is What My Idea Of Film Acting Should Be. There Shouldn't Be Any Acting. You Should Just Be Watching A Real Person.

Wherever I Live, If There Isn't A Restaurant I Want To Go To Of A Certain Type, Then I Open It. That's All. For Selfish Reasons.

To Be A Movie Star, You Have To Invent Yourself.

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 Restaurant I Went To. I Didn't Know Anyone Unknown Who Didn't Become Famous.

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.

To Me, 'educating Rita' Is The Most Perfect Performance I Could Give Of A Character Who Was As Far Away From Me As You Could Possibly Get And Of All The Films I Have Ever Been In, I Think It May Be The One I Am Most Proud Of.

This Is Your Life, Larry. Learn To Enjoy What You've Got.

I Don't See Myself As Anything. I Just Wander Around Getting On With My Life.

80 Percent Of Any Gang Is Not There To Attack Someone. They're There So No One Will Attack Them.

In My Day, The Drug Was Alcohol And The Weapon Was A Fist, So It Was Very Sort Of Innocent And Primitive. Now You've Got Drugs, Guns, And Knives, Which Are So Lethal.

You Don't Sacrifice Your Individuality; You Sacrifice A Lot Of Freedom.

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