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" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. "

" A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. "

" Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. "

" I see myself as 38, but you don't notice 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. "

" You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. "

" I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. "

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

" 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 won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. "

" 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. "

" Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. "

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

" 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. "

" English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. "

" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "

" I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. "

" 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. "

" When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right. "

" 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. "

" 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 am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. "

" The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "