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" 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. "
Michael Caine
American
Growing Up
Music
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" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. "
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" 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. "
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" I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "
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" 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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" I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. "
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" I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. "
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" I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition. "
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Myself
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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. "
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" The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. "
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Nor
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" Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. "
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" 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! "
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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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