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" Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. "

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" The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. "

" I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. "

" 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. "

" I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable. "

" I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. "

" As an actor, I'll play anything. "

" One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow. "

" I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers. "

" 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. "

" Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. "

" I'm the audience's representative on earth. "

" 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 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. "

" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "

" 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. "

" If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one. "

" I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. "

" Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. "

" I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl. "

" 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? "

" I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you. "

" 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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. "