Michael Caine Quotes
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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.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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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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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
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Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.
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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.
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The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
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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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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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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.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
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If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
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I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
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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.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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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.
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.