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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. "

Michael Caine

Girl

Happy

Mirror

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" I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work. "

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

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

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You

Your

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

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

" You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. "

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

Michael Caine

Mad

Influence

" My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Michael Caine

Always

Transport

" 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. "

" I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. "

" I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. "

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

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

Michael Caine

Calm

Duck

" Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! "

" 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! "

" 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. "

Michael Caine

Villain

American

" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you. "

" 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. "