Michael Caine Quotes
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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
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A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
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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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As an actor, I'll play anything.
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
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I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
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They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.
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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
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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.
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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
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I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.
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I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
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I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
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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.
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Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.