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" I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters. "
Michael Caine
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" At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. "
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" Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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Me
Life
" I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. "
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Dirty
Quiet
Remake
" If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. "
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Your
Up
" In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. "
Michael Caine
America
Cockney
England
" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "
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Soldier
Poor
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" Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. "
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" 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. "
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Nothing
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Trying
" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "
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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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My Life
Time
Never
" 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. "
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I Can
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" The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. "
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Thought
" 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. "
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Name
Telephone
" 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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Place
" 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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Open
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Want
" Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. "
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Get
" You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one. "
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Film
Paid
Same
" I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. "
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Boy
Sort
" 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
Been
" For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know? "
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" The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. "
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Never