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

Million Dollars

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "

" The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure. "

" I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed. "

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

" 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. "

" Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. "

" My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of. "

" My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work. "

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

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

" I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. "

" The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "