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" January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. "

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" The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. "

" 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. "

" If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers. "

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

" 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 don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. "

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

" My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be. "

" One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow. "

" 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 see myself as 38, but you don't notice it. "

" A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. "

" 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. "

" I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. "

" 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. "

" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "

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

" I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers. "

" Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times. "

" 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. "