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" I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. "
Michael Caine
All Day
Miners
Meet
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" The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all. "
Michael Caine
Really
Want
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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. "
Michael Caine
Girl
Happy
Mirror
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Time
You
American
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Us
You
Class
" I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable. "
Michael Caine
Feel
Try
Everyone
" 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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My Life
Time
Never
" The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. "
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Saw
Actor
Thought
" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "
Michael Caine
Believe
You
I Believe
" When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right. "
Michael Caine
While
You
Doing
" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "
Michael Caine
Great
Growing
Best
" I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers. "
Michael Caine
Who
Always
Rich
" Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. "
Michael Caine
Up
Growing Up
Window
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Bathroom
You
Love
" People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors. "
Michael Caine
People
I Can
People Say
" I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for. "
Michael Caine
Theatre
Success
Actor
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Face
Me
Tears
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Job
Name
Telephone
" If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. "
Michael Caine
Own
Director
Control
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Nothing
Work
Trying
" As an actor, I'll play anything. "
Michael Caine
Play
Actor
Anything
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Tell
Me
Cry
" My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. "
Michael Caine
Talk
Too Much
Slow
" In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. "
Michael Caine
America
Cockney
England
" Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. "
Michael Caine
Always
Things
Start
" Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you. "
Michael Caine
Acting
Good
Easy
" I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. "
Michael Caine
Done
Things
Started
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Know
You
Place
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Tell
Clean
You
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Work
Money
Here
" Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! "
Michael Caine
Hollywood
Health
Farm