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" The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all. "

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

" 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. "

" To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own. "

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

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" 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. "

" My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. "

" 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 learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. "