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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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" 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 don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. "

" The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. "

" 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

Cry

" I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. "

" At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. "

" Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed. "

" 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. "

" 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're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life. "

Michael Caine

Character

You

" I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt. "

Michael Caine

Woman

Who

" January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. "

" I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "

" I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. "

" 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. "

" I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable. "

" The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. "

Michael Caine

Something

Town

" English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. "