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    Michael Caine

    About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

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    Michael Caine

    Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

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    Michael Caine

    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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    Michael Caine

    A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

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    Michael Caine

    A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

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    Michael Caine

    And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

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    Michael Caine

    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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    Michael Caine

    As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

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    Michael Caine

    At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

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    Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

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    Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

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    Michael Caine

    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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    Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

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    Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

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    Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

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    Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

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    English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

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    Michael Caine

    Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

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    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.

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    For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

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    Michael Caine

    For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

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    Michael Caine

    For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

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    God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

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    Michael Caine

    Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

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    Michael Caine

    Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

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    Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

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    I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

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    I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

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    I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

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    I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

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    Michael Caine

    I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

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    Michael Caine

    I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

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    Michael Caine

    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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    Michael Caine

    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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    Michael Caine

    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 don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

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    I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

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    Michael Caine

    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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    Michael Caine

    I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

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    I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

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    I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

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    I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

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    I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

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    I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

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    I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

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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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    If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

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    If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

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    If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

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    Michael Caine

    If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.