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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.

-Michael Caine

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Michael Caine

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I Spent My Life In The Library Reading Books.

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 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.

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.

Don't Sit As If You Have Nothing To Say. You Should Be Bursting With Things To Say. You Just Choose At This Particular Place And Time, Not To Say Them.

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

Obsession Is A Young Man’s Game.

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

Respecting Others

Acting Is Not A Competition; Everything Must Be Done For The Good Of The Film Or Else Everybody Loses.

But The Whole Point Of The Sixties Was That You Had To Take People As They Were. If You Came In With Us You Left Your Class, And Colour, And Religion Behind, That Was What The Sixties Was All About.

What It Is Is That Comedy Is Underrepresented In Every Actor's Life, Because It's So Bloody Difficult To Write. Anyone Can Write, And Then You Leave It To Special Effects To Make It Look Good. But Comedy, You've Got To Do Some Writing.

I Feel That I Helped The Working Class By Just Saying There Are No Barriers, Which I Consider To Be True.

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.

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.

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.

God Willing, Even I Might Scrape A Nomination.

The Greatest Luxury Is Not Driving. I Didn't Own A Car Until I Was 30, And That Was A Rolls-royce, So It Was Cheaper To Insure A Chauffeur. I Never Want To Drive Again. My Mind Is Always On Other Things. I Hate Parking, And I'm Very Short-tempered And Would Get Road Rage, I'm Sure.

As An Actor, I'll Play Anything.

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

If You're A Movie Star, You Get The Girl, You Lose The Girl, And Then You Get Her Back. But If You're A Character Like Me, You Lose The Girl, Then You Get Another One, Then You Get Another One, Then You Lose Them All, Then You Lose Your Life.

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.

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.

I'm The Audience's Representative On Earth.

I Am In So Many Movies That Are On Tv At 2:00 A.m. That People Think I Am Dead.

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.

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

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

In England, I Was A Cockney Actor. In America, I Was An Actor.

In Real Life, I'm Afraid Of Heights - And People Who Get Moral Convictions... Adolf Hitler In London.

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

Just Because I Have Made A Point Of Never Losing My Accent It Doesn't Mean I'm An Eel-and-pie Yob.

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

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

Use The Difficulties - If You Can't Avoid Them

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nobody's A Criminal To Himself. I Never Play A Criminal Like A Bad Person.

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

A Man's Body May Grow Old, But Inside His Spirit Can Still Be As Young And As Restless As Ever.

Great Acting Is About Listening To What They Are Saying ....not Waiting To Deliver Your Lines.

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

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.

I Have Been Rich And I Have Been Poor. I Know Which One I Prefer.

I Always Say To My Wife, Don't Tell Anyone I Watch This [shows Like The X Factor And Pop Idol], But It Fascinates Me Because I've Done So Many Auditions And Been Knocked Back.

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

My Understanding Of Women Goes Only As Far As The Pleasures.

The Trouble With Women? Elbows.

I Never Regret Anything. I Always Said That When I'm Old, I Want To Be Sitting There Regretting The Things That I Did And Not The Things That I Didn't Do; And Now I'm Old, And I Don't Regret Anything! I Had Fun. I Had Fun, And I'm Still Having It.

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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.

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.

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One Of The Main Things About Cockney Is, You Speak At Twice The Speed As Americans. Americans Speak Very Slow.

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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?'

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.

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.

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

Alfie Was The First Time I Was Above The Title; The First Time I Became A Star In America.

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

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

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.

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

...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.

We Can Only Use British Actors Because Everybody's Got To Talk Exactly The Same.

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Hey, I Always Say: If You Want A Quiet Life, Become A Monk.

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.

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

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.

When You're A Movie Star And You're Young, You Are Always Playing Someone Who's A Better Fighter, A Better Lover, A Better Everything Than You.

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They Use Those Monitors Now, And Sometimes You'll Be Doing A Shot And Then Suddenly You See Yourself On One Of Those Monitors, And I Always Say Turn The Monitor Round, I Don't Want To See Myself On The Monitor. I Never See Myself 'til The Movie's Finished.

No Matter What The Reason, If You Start To Scream And Shout, You Look A Fool, And You Feel A Fool, And You Earn The Disrespect Of Everyone.

When I'm Doing An Accent, You Shouldn't Notice It For A While, If I'm Doing It Right.

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

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

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.

Theater Acting Is An Operation With A Scalpel, Movie Acting Is An Operation With A Laser

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

I Am Often Asked Which Of My Films Has Come Closest To My Own Ideal Of Performance, And I Always Answer, 'educating Rita.'

I've Always Played Very Human Sort Of Characters.

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

I See Myself As 38, But You Don't Notice It.

I've Been On Movies Where I Literally Couldn't Hear What The Other Actor Was Saying. It's Very Awkward.

The Three Actors I Admire The Most Are All Dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy And The French Actor, Jean Gabin. They're All Very Natural, Sort Of Masculine Without Being Overly Macho.

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.

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

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

I Was In Korea. I've Noticed All My Life I See Elderly People Who Have Been Close To Death In An Illness And They're Absolutely Cured And They Say, Now I Know How To Live My Life. I've Seen Death. That Happened To Me When I Was 19. It Was A Terrible, Terrifying Thing. And I Live My Life Like Those People Decided To Do When They Were Old. So, 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.

I've Got A Lot Of Back-up Because My Father Was A Catholic, My Mother Was A Protestant, I Was Educated By Jews And I'm Married To A Muslim. So I Won't Lose Out On A Technicality.

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

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

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

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

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

I've Always Loved Reprehensible People Because They're So Much More Interesting To Play On Screen.

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

I'm Very, Very Family Oriented. I'm A Big Cook And A Good Connoisseur And I Only Drink Very Good Red Wines Now.

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

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.

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.

I Just Work In Order To Improve Myself As An Actor Which Is What I've Always Done.

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

I Regard Myself As Someone Who Is Retired But Who Occasionally Goes Out To Work. In Fact, I'm Offered So Much Good Stuff That It's Not So Occasional.

Youre Only Supposed To Blow The Bloody Doors Off!

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.

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

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.

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

I Prefer To Remake Flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Was A Remake Of A Flop, And The Quiet American Is A Remake Of A Flop.

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

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 Did Everything. I Ran My Life Exactly As I Wanted To, All The Time. I Never Listened To Anybody. I'm Pig-headed.

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

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.

In My Opinion, Everybody Is Getting Older And Older. We Have A Great Deal Of Dementia Because Nobody Grew Old Enough To Get It.

Sometimes, In A Part, Everything Comes Together.

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 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 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.

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

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

Hollywood Is A Cross Between A Health Farm, A Recreation Center And An Insane Asylum. It's A Company Town, And I Happen To Like The Company!

Lunatic Asylums

My Closest Friends Are Roger Moore, Who Is An Actor, Sean Connery, Who Is An Actor, Terry O'neill, Who Is A Photographer, Johnny Gold, Who Was The Boss Of Tramp, And Leslie Bricusse, Who Is A Composer.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

For Me, The Performance Was Always Playing Different People. And So When I Got Older, Was No Longer The Romantic Leading Movie Star, It Became More And More Interesting For Me, The Characters I Played, You Know?

You've Got To Be Flexible. Directors Do A Massive Amount Of Planning And Homework, And If After All That Your Director Decides To Throw It All Out Of The Window And Shoot Spontaneously, Then You Must Follow His Lead.

I Spent 30 Years Of My Life Not Being Wanted At All For Films.

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.

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

When It Comes To Politics, I Believe You Have To Cut The Cake So That Everybody Gets A Piece, But At The Same Time, You Have To Keep In Mind That Somebody Has To Make The Cake.

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

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.

I Can Never Be The Hero Now. You Have To Be Young And All That Stuff. I Used To Be The Hero.

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?

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

It's Vital To Have Your Own Space So You Aren't Constantly In Each Other's Pockets.

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.

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

If I See Any Injustice Done, I Have A Big Enough Mouth And The Position To Open Up About It.

I Learned About Life Before I Went Into The Theater, Which Is Why I've Been So Happy. I Was A Soldier.

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

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

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.

No English Director Would've Cast Me As An Officer, I Promise You. Not One.

I Don't Like Getting Up Early In The Morning And Learning All That Stuff. I Work With Offers That I Can't Refuse.

About Superman And Batman: The Former Is How America Views Itself, The Latter, Darker Character Is How The Rest Of The World Views America.

Funny Things Happen To You In Movies For Silly Reasons.

As An Actor, My Attitude Towards Using Of Film Versus Digital Is, If You Have Film, Filmmakers Have To Cut Eventually So You Don't Have To Learn All That Dialogue. With Digital, They Can Just Go On Forever And It's A Nightmare. So, I Like Film - Nice Short Takes.

At 69, I Got The Girl! And It Wasn't A 68-year-old Girl, Either.

The Best Research For Playing A Drunk Is Being A British Actor For 20 Years.

Things Are Not Quite What They Seem Always. Don't Start Me On Class, Otherwise You'll Get A Four-hour Lecture.

I'm Very Much More Choosy Now. I Do Stuff That I Really, Really, Really Like.

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.

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.

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

Someone Said To Me The Other Day: "well, You're Eventually Going To Live Until 110." And I Said: "well, Who's Going To Keep Me? What Age Do I Retire? 100?" How Are You Going To Live All Those Years And Who Is Going To Keep You Doing It? I Have A Couple Of Grandchildren Now So I'm Banking On Them.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 Always Exposed The Weakness Rather Than The Nastiness.

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.

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

I'm Not In The Lifetime Achievement Area Yet-i'm Still Battling It Out In The Trenches.

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

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

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

One Of The Great Things With Comedy Is That There's No Such Thing As A Mediocre Comedy; It's Either Uproarious Or Crap. That's The Problem.

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

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