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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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" 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. "

Michael Caine

You

Unknown

Restaurant

" I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better. "

" The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho. "

" I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. "

" You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. "

" 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 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've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. "

" 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. "

" Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. "

" My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. "

" I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35! "

" 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 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

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

" 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. "

Michael Caine

Home

Life

" My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. "

" I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. "

" 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. "

" I'm the audience's representative on earth. "

" I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. "

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

" Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. "

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

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

Michael Caine

Woman

Who

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. "

" 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. "

" I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. "