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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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" 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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" When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right. "

" 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. "

" 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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" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "

" I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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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