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" Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons. "

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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. "

" The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. "

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

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

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

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

" Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. "

" I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. "

" 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. "

" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "

" I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you. "

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

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

" I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. "

" 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. "

" As an actor, I'll play anything. "

" 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'm the audience's representative on earth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one. "