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" 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. "

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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. "

Michael Caine

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" In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. "

" 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'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. "

Michael Caine

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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. "

" When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins. "

" 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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

Michael Caine

Wife

Love

" 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. "

" Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America. "

" 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. "

" At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either. "

" The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. "

" In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. "

" 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. "

" Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. "

" 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. "

" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "

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

" To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times. "

" 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. "

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

Michael Caine

Dead

I Am

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

Michael Caine

You

Your

" 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. "

Michael Caine

Villain

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