Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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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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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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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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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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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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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 don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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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.
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You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.
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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.