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" I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. "
Michael Caine
He
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell. "
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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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" You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot. "
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" 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. "
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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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" There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful. "
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Stuff
Wife
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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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" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "
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Believe
You
I Believe
" 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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You
Love
" 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. "
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Own
" I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. "
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Loved
People
" If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. "
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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'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. "
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Laugh
Hand
Me
" 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. "
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Natural
Actor
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" Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. "
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You
Silly
Things Happen
" You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. "
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Never
Remember
Successful
" As an actor, I'll play anything. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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?' "
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" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "
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Wisdom
Heart
My Own
" My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else. "
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" 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. "
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Want
" 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. "
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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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" Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. "
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