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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. "
Michael Caine
Work
Fact
Good
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" 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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" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "
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" 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. "
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" If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to. "
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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. "
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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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" I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. "
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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 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. "
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" I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. "
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" When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins. "
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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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" I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that. "
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" My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. "
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" 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! "
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" 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. "
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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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" Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. "
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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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" 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. "
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