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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
Michael Caine -
I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
Michael Caine
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine -
There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
Michael Caine -
Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
Michael Caine -
I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here living for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.
Michael Caine
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
Michael Caine -
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
Michael Caine -
No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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.
Michael Caine -
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
Michael Caine
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I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine