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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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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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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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
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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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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.
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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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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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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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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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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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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 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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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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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'm the audience's representative on earth.
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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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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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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.