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" The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. "
Michael Caine
Drunk
Years
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to. "
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" I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. "
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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 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. "
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" Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. "
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" 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. "
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" I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for. "
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" I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. "
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Subtle
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" Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. "
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Obsession
Never
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" 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. "
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" I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane. "
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Tell
Clean
You
" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "
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Great
Growing
Best
" 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 am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. "
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" I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. "
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" What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone. "
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