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" I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. "
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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Either
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Got
" 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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Nice
Boy
American
" 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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Bathroom
You
Love
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Acting
Good
Easy
" 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. "
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Work
Fact
Good
" The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. "
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Drunk
Years
Actor
" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "
Michael Caine
I Am
Performance
Own
" When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part. "
Michael Caine
Girl
Happy
Mirror
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Time
You
American
" I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition. "
Michael Caine
Person
Myself
Competition
" In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films. "
Michael Caine
Early
Money
Trying
" 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
Me
Cry
" I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. "
Michael Caine
Actor
Character
Made
" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "
Michael Caine
Soldier
Poor
Background
" As an actor, I'll play anything. "
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Play
Actor
Anything
" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "
Michael Caine
Believe
You
I Believe
" When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you. "
Michael Caine
Better
Young
You
" If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. "
Michael Caine
You
Your
Up
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Us
You
Class
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Open
Live
Want
" Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. "
Michael Caine
Medical
Know
Get
" I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. "
Michael Caine
Laugh
Hand
Me
" Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. "
Michael Caine
Always
Things
Start
" 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
Play
Character
Did
" I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money. "
Michael Caine
Work
Money
Here
" Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. "
Michael Caine
Time
Award
Career
" 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. "
Michael Caine
Job
Live
Business
" A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over. "
Michael Caine
Start
Stars
Great
" Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. "
Michael Caine
Got
Comedy
Some
" I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. "
Michael Caine
Interesting
Loved
People