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My problem was that I was blon...

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Michael Caine 323 quotes

My wife comes with me on all t...

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

Michael Caine 323 quotes

The American cinema in general...

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

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The difference between a movie...

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

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I have been rich and I have be...

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

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Acting is not a competition; e...

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

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No matter what the reason, if ...

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

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To be a movie star, you have t...

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

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First of all, I choose the gre...

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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In film, other actors' perform...

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.

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You're your first best audienc...

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

Michael Caine 323 quotes

When becoming a character, you...

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 323 quotes

You've got to be flexible. Dir...

You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

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I enjoy making people laugh. T...

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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When you're a young actor you ...

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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My view of actors is that basi...

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

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It's funny, people ask me, 'Wh...

It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

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If you're an actor and you don...

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

Michael Caine 323 quotes

They use those monitors now, a...

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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People say to me, why did you ...

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.

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