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" 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. "
Michael Caine
Always
Me
Transport
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" Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. "
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" I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. "
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" Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. "
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" A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. "
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" I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed. "
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" 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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" Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. "
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" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "
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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. "
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" You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Three
" I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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Early
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Trying
" 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. "
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Bathroom
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" 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. "
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" I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. "
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" I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. "
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" I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. "
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" I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. "
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" My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. "
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" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "
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" 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? "
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