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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.
Michael Caine -
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
Michael Caine
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
Michael Caine -
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.
Michael Caine -
I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
Michael Caine -
I've always played very human sort of characters.
Michael Caine -
Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
Michael Caine -
I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
Michael Caine
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
Michael Caine -
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
Michael Caine -
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
Michael Caine -
People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
Michael Caine -
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
Michael Caine -
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Michael Caine
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
Michael Caine -
What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
Michael Caine -
In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
Michael Caine -
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
Michael Caine -
Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
Michael Caine -
I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
Michael Caine
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In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
Michael Caine -
I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
Michael Caine -
Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
Michael Caine -
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
Michael Caine