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" The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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. "

" English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. "

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

" The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?' "

" I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home. "

" 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 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. "

" If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. "

" If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15. "

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

" 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. "