Michael Caine Quotes
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There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, so I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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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.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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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.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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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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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
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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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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?'
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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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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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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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.
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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.