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I've Done A Lot Of Radio In My Life. I've Done Radio Plays For The Bbc When I Was Young So I Was Absolutely Used To That Style Of Work, Of Working With The Voice. I Have A Very Distinctive Voice So It's Always Great For Me Because I Open My Mouth And Everybody Knows Who It Is.

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Michael Caine

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I've Done A Lot Of Radio In My Life. I've Done Radio Plays For The Bbc When I Was Young So I Was Absolutely Used To That Style Of Work, Of Working With The Voice. I Have A Very Distinctive Voice So It's Always Great For Me Because I Open My Mouth And Everybody Knows Who It Is.

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I Didn't Want To Come In The Movie Every So Often, Every 20 Minutes Saying, 'dinner Is Served, Would You Like Coffee?'

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.

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In My Early Days, I Didn't Know What A Good Film Or A Bad Film Was, And I Was Trying To Make Some Money. As It Happens I Was Lucky. I Made Some Good Films.

I'm A Sort Of Boy Next Door. If That Boy Has A Good Scriptwriter.

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.

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

My Career Is Going Better Now Than When I Was Younger. Now I Get The Part. Back Then, I'd Get The Girl.

I Usually Control The Environment I'm In, But My Control Is Very Quiet And Subtle.

If Someone Is Very Upper-class, You Have A Stereotype Of Him Which Is Probably True. If Someone Has A Working-class Accent, You Have No Idea Who You're Talking To.

January Is The Garbage Can Of Movies In America, Directly After All The Oscar Contenders Have Been Out.

If You're A Leading Actor You Don't Work With Another Actor. You Work With A Lady.

I Always Exposed The Weakness Rather Than The Nastiness.

I Have Never Seen It (jaws 4) But By All Accounts It Is Terrible. However, I Have Seen The House That It Built And It Is Terrific.

My Most Useful Acting Tip Came From My Pal John Wayne. Talk Low, Talk Slow, And Don't Say Too Much.

I Think It Would Be Great For The Academy To Recognize Old Age.

If You're An Actor And You Don't Act For A Long Time You Sort Of Think, I Wonder If I Can Still Do It.

You Get Paid The Same For A Bad Film As You Do For A Good One.

Am I A Car Aficionado? No: For Me, Cars Have Always Been Just For Transport. I Didn't Even Know Anyone Who Had A Car Until I Was 14 Or 15.

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.

I Admired Marlon Brando As I Grew Up. I Though He Was One Of The Finest Screen Actors Around.

Maybe It's Time We All Stop Trying To Outsmart The Truth And Let It Have Its Day.

If I Work With A Bad Actor, My Reaction Is To Immediately Become Worse Than They Are.

I've Made The Transition From Star To Character Actor And I'm Thoroughly Enjoying It.

My Mother Had Heard All About Miniskirts But Had Never Seen One So I Took Her For Lunch At Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We Walked Down The King's Road And Waited 10 Seconds For Our First Miniskirt And A Girl Came Along With Her Skirt Tucked Round Her Arse. I Said: 'what Do You Think, Ma?' And She Said: 'if It's Not For Sale, You Shouldn't Put It In The Window!'

To Be A Movie Star, You Have To Carry A Movie. And To Carry A Movie Where You Play The Title Role Is The Supreme Example.

I Enjoy Making People Laugh. The Trick Is To Tell Them Jokes Against Yourself. If You Praise Yourself, Your Stories Aren't Funny.

I Heard My First Laughter On Stage, When I Was About 10 Years Old. It Was Gold Pantomime And I Remember I Was Playing Baron Fitznoodle, Who Was The Father Of The Ugly Sisters In "cinderella." And I Walked On And Got A Great Big Laugh And I Thought That Was Fantastic, Until I Looked Down And Found That My Flies Were Open. And So I Always Check My Flies. I Even Check My Flies On Radio.

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.

When Becoming A Character, You Have To Steal. Steal Whatever You See. You Can Even Steal From Other Actors' Characterizations; But If You Do, Only Steal From The Best.

I Don't Do It Often, But I Do Cry. I Also Laugh A Lot; People Tell Me I'm Funny And I Do Like To Laugh.

I Come From The Slums; I Come From A Hard Background; I Come From A Poor Family; And I Was A Soldier.

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.

The Standing Ovation Threw Me. ... To Be Held In Such Regard In A Town So Full Of Talent Is Quite Something.

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

Obsession Is A Young Man's Game, And My Only Excuse Is That I Never Grew Old.

To Me, Growing Old Is Great. It's The Very Best Thing - Considering The Alternative.

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The Quiet American Is Anti The People Who Took Them Into The Vietnam War.

Comedy Is Underrepresented In Every Actor's Life, Because It's So Bloody Difficult To Write.

I Never Listened To The People Who Said I Should Give It Up, Which Is The Main Advice I Got.

There Is No Point In Competing With Young Talent...i Just Concentrate On Getting Better Each Day.

If You're A Gardener You Don't Need A Gym. [...] You're Always Carrying Large Sacks Of Manure All Over.

I Have A Knack Of Making Villainous People A Little Bit Sympathetic, A Bit Of Fun On Screen.

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.

English Is Clipped In Speech. Texas Is Exactly The Opposite.

A Lot Of Movie Stars Are Not Great Actors; They're Just Very Good-looking. And When They Start To Age And They Don't Have The Looks Any More, Then It's Over.

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I'm The Audience's Representative On Earth.

We Should Vote For The Welfare Of The Country, Not For The Welfare Of The Party.

For All My Education, Accomplishments, And So Called 'wisdom'... I Can't Fathom My Own Heart.

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

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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.

I'm Forever Testing Myself. As A Person And As An Actor, I Have No Sense Of Competition.

Nobody Did A Campaign For Me. I Was Nominated Out Of The Blue And Won Out Of The Blue. So That Was It.

I Was Born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine Signing That Autograph! You'd Get A Broken Arm. So I Changed My Name To Michael Caine After Humphrey Bogart's 'the Caine Mutiny,' Which Was Playing In The Theater Across From The Telephone Booth Where I Learned That I'd Gotten My First Tv Job.

I Sit Waiting For Things That I Can't Refuse.

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Not Only Is Acting More Than A Part-time Job, It's More Than A Full-time Job. It's A Full-time Obsession.

Youre Only Supposed To Blow The Bloody Doors Off!

When I Was A Young Actor I Was In A Lot Of Film Doing One Day Work And Two Days' Work, And They've Included All Those Titles, Which I Don't Even Remember. I Think I've Played The Lead In About 75 Movies.

If You Put Someone On Screen Long Enough, They Become The Hero.

Since I Was 19, I've Had The Most Fun Possible Every Single Day, Even When I Had A Rough Life. It Was The Army Which Taught Me About Life, And The Theater Which Taught Me How Good It Could Be.

To Disappear Your Complete Self Into A Character Is Quite Difficult. I've Tried It 85 Times, And I've Succeeded Two Or Three Times.

If You're A Movie Actor, You're On Your Own - You Cannot Control The Stage. The Director Controls It.

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

...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.

I Was A Repertory Actor, Which Meant That I Did A Play Every Week. I Was A Different Character Every Week; For A Year, I Was Doing 40 Or 50 Characters.

You Can't Get Blase About Something You Haven't Done Yet.

I Don't Work Very Much, And I Just Sit Here Waiting For A Script That I Can't Refuse - And I'm Not Talking About Money.

And To Tom Cruise, For If You Had Won This, Your Asking Price Would Have Gone Down So Fast. Do You Have Any Idea What Supporting Actors Get Paid? We Get Only One Trailer, A Small One, In The Back.

When I Look In The Mirror, I See Someone Who's Happy With How He Looks, Because I Was Never One Of The Handsome Hollywood People. And I've Had Success As I've Gotten Older, Because I'm Able To Play Characters. I No Longer Get The Girl, But I Get The Part.

I Don't Have To Work, Really, But I Do Enjoy Working, And I Do Enjoy Getting Paid.

I'm The Happiest Grandfather In The World, I Promise You.

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

I'm Doing The Next Batman. I Have To Become Obsessed About What Is Offered To Me.

I Try To Make Everyone Around Me Feel Comfortable.

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

There's Only Two Things I Hate In This World. People Who Are Intolerant Of Other People's Cultures And The Dutch.

I'm Trying To Work Only With Established, Respected Directors. I Took A Lot Of Bad Scripts And Worked For A Lot Of Lazy Directors, And It Was Discouraging To Go To The Screenings And See That The Director Had Added Nothing, The Editor Had Added Nothing, There Was Nothing To See.

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.

I Feel Like 35. At 35 You're Old Enough To Know Something And Young Enough To Look Forward To What You Can Do With The Knowledge. So I Stayed At 35!

I Wear A Baseball Cap All The Time, Which I Would Never Normally Wear, And I Walk Very Fast.

The Trouble With Women? Elbows.

I Won An Academy Award For 'the Cider House Rules,' Playing An American.

The Basic Rule Of Human Nature Is That Powerful People Speak Slowly And Subservient People Quickly - Because If They Don't Speak Fast Enough, Nobody Will Listen To Them.

I Regard The Theater As A Woman I Loved Dearly Who Treated Me Like Dirt.

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.

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

I Just Love To Go Home, No Matter Where I Am, The Most Luxurious Hotel Suite In The World, I Love To Go Home.

It's Funny, People Ask Me, 'what Would You Consider The Most Romantic Track On Your Record Mr Caine?' And I Say 'swollen' By Bent, And They Say 'i Think He's Off His Rocker!'

I'm Always Slightly Envious Of People Who Become Extremely Rich Without Anyone Knowing Who The Hell They Are, Like Financiers.

If You're Blond, As I Am, And You Have Blond Lashes, You Have To Wear Mascara, Otherwise You're Invisible On Stage.

I Think I Have The Secret Of A Successful L.a. Restaurant, Especially Now That So Many Europeans Live There. You Have To Have A Place Where They Can See Out The Windows, See The World Passing By. Europeans Fancy That.

Funny Things Happen To You In Movies For Silly Reasons.

My Own Mentality Is That I've Retired. They Send Me These Scripts And If I Absolutely Have To Do It, Then I Go To Work.

I'd Like It To Be Remembered As You Had Some Fun. We're Only Here [living] For Some Fun. I Think If You Learn Something, All Well And Good, But We're Only Here To Give You Some Fun. Along The Way, You May Find Out Something.

The Difference Between A Movie Star And A Movie Actor Is This - A Movie Star Will Say, 'how Can I Change The Script To Suit Me?' And A Movie Actor Will Say. 'how Can I Change Me To Suit The Script?'

Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn

When You Reach The Top, That's When The Climb Begins.

I Had Been In That Part Of The World As A Soldier In Korea, So I Had Been Interested In Vietnam.

I've Always Played Very Human Sort Of Characters.

Use The Difficulties - If You Can't Avoid Them

Save Your Money. You're Going To Need Twice As Much Money In Your Old Age As You Think.

My View Of Actors Is That Basically They're All Harmless Lunatics Who'd Be On The Psychiatrist's Couch.

My Problem Was That I Was Blond. There Were No Heroes With Blond Hair. Robert Taylor And Henry Fonda, They All Had Dark Hair. The Only One I Found Was Van Johnson, Who Wasn't Too Cool. He Was A Nice, Homely American Boy. So I Created My Own Image. It Worked.

I'm Hoping There's An Afterlife. As You Get Older, You Hope Even More Fervently.

I Have Enough Money Not To Do Pictures Ever. I'm Seventy Years Old. I Don't Want To Get Up At 6:30 In The Morning And Learn Ten Pages Of Dialogue To Do With A Bunch Of Creeps I Don't Like. It's Gotta Be Fun For Me.

Growing Up, There Was Only Classical Music On Bbc Radio. We Had To Listen To The American Forces Network In Germany, Which Played Pop Songs, Or The Pirate Radio Boats Off The Coast.

A Lot Of My Best Parts I've Been The Second Choice For, So You Never Get Too Egotistical About Anything.

Be Like A Duck. Calm On The Surface, But Always Paddling Like The Dickens Underneath.

I Don't Have Any Regrets Because I'm Very Optimistic, And Live Each Day As Though It's The Last.

There Was A Certain Moment. I Was About 61 - Two, Three Or Four, And I Got A Script. And I Sent It Back To The Producer Saying - "i Don't Wanna Do It. The Part's Too Small." And He Sent It Back To Me, He Said, "you Shouldn't Read The Lover. You Should Read The Father.

I Just Try To Play More And More Difficult Roles.

Every Magic Trick Consists Of Three Parts, Or Acts. The First Part Is Called The Pledge. The Magician Shows You Something Ordinary. The Second Act Is Called The Turn. The Magician Takes The Ordinary Something And Makes It Into Something Extraordinary. But You Wouldn't Clap Yet, Because Making Something Disappear Isn't Enough. You Have To Bring It Back.

I've Never Been Out With A Married Woman, Never. I Respect Others' Properties.

Respecting Others

I Don't Want To Be An English Actor Doing The Greatest American Accent You've Ever Heard. I Want To Be An American Doing Nothing.

The First Actor I Ever Saw Was The Lone Ranger. I Thought: "that's What I Want To Do."

You Don't Make Any Money When You're My Age. The Stars Get It All. That's A Lie, Actually.

There Are Loads Of Black Actors.you Can't Say: I'm Going To Vote For Him, He's Not Very Good But He's Black, [so] I'll Vote For Him. You've Got To Give A Good Performance.

If You Go Away On Location For Three Months And Your Wife Stays At Home, You've Made A Whole New Load Of Friends And She's Made A Whole New Load Of Friends And You Get Home And You're Kind Of Strangers.

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.

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

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.

I Love The Start Of Autumn When The Trees In My Garden Change The Colour Of Their Leaves In One Last Dazzling Display.

I Never Bring A Role Home With Me. The Moment They Say, 'it's A Wrap,' It's Gone Completely. I'm A Totally Ruthless Professional, And Life Is My Family, Not My Work.

I'd Never Been In One Of Those Great Big Blockbusters.

A Lot Of People Said, Who Do You Think You Are? I Told Them I Know Exactly Who I Am And I'll Tell You Exactly Where I'm Going.

Do I Believe In God? Yes I Do. When You've Had A Life Like Mine, You Have To.

I Wouldn't Make An Anti-american Film. I'm One Of The Most Pro-american Foreigners I Know. I Love America And Americans.

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.

You Don't Retire From The Movies. The Movies Retire You.

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.

When I Was 6 My Father Went To Fight In The War, So He Was My Big Hero. I Thought He Was The Greatest Thing.

When You're A Young Actor You Ring Your Agent Every Evening. It's Not Like When You're In Hollywood Where You Do One Picture A Year. You Just Hope You Get A Day On Television.

By The Time The Oscars Are On I'll Be Seventy. How Many More Chances Am I Going To Have To Get Nominated For An Oscar?

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.

I Was So Poor For So Long That I Didn't Use Anything. I Didn't Drive Cars, I Didn't Eat Very Much. So, I Figured The World Owed Me A Debt, So I've Been Eating Very Well And Have Had A Very Big Car For A Long Time. But I Still Haven't Caught Up With My Youth.

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

I Spent My Entire Time Reading Books And Going To The Cinema, Just To Escape.

My Dialogue Coach Said To Do A Texas Accent, You Lean On The Next Word, And That Was The Clue To Me.

I've Always Got To Have One Impossible Dream On The Back Burner.

I Don't Think You Retire From Movies; Movies Retire You.

I Didn't Know What I Knew. I Wasn't Aware Of What I Knew.

I'm Not Tough Anymore, I'm 82.

I've Been In Every Disco In The World. I Saw A Picture Of My Wife Shakira And I Dancing In Studio 54; I Didn't Even Know Someone Had Taken That Picture.

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

I Don't Meet Stockbrokers Or Carpenters Or Coal Miners; I Spend All Day With Actors, Composers And Photographers.

You Start Pretending To Have Fun, You Might Have A Little By Accident.

I'm Every Bourgeois Nightmare - A Cockney With Intelligence And A Million Dollars.

Movie Actors Earn Their Living And Learn Their Craft Through Listening And Reacting.

I Read Books Like Mad, But I Am Careful To To Let Anything I Read Influence Me.

I've Done My Job And I've Got The Picture Out There, And I'm Very Happy With It.

You Cannot Have One Bathroom. And It Don't Matter How Much You Love Your Wife And Everything, 'cause You Wind Up With No Room At All. You Just Get A Little Corner And You've Got A Toothbrush And Your Paste And A Shaving Brush And A Razor. And You Can Never Get In There. So You Must Have Two Bathrooms. You Really Must. I Think It's Essential.

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.

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

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.

I Don't Think Human Beings Are Bad. They're Weak. And That's What Makes 'em Bad.

Presenting The Oscars Was The Most Nerve-racking Job I Have Ever Done In Show Business. It's Very Much A Live Show: They Have Comedy Writers Waiting In The Wings, And As You Come Off Between Presentations, They Hand You An Appropriate Gag To Tell.

For Cider House Rules, I Was Doing A New England Accent.

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.

You Can See All Sorts Of Things In Film Acting If You Know Where To Look And What To Look For. One Thing I Often Notice Is That The Actor Is Looking For His Mark, The Place Where He Has To Stand To Be In The Right Place In The Shot.

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

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