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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. "
Michael Caine
You
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" Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. "
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" A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. "
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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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" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it. "
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" You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one. "
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" 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. "
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" If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. "
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" As an actor, I'll play anything. "
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" I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home. "
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Hotel
" The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. "
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" You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. "
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" Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. "
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" I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. "
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" 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. "
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Mirror
" English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. "
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Texas
English
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" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "
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" At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. "
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" I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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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" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "
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