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

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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. "

" I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. "

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

" 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 think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. "

" Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. "

" 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. "

" The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. "

" 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. "

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

" Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "

" Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. "