Michael Caine quotes - page 5

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. (Michael Caine)
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. View quote
Michael Caine
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. View quote
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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional. View quote
Michael Caine
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. View quote
Michael Caine
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. View quote
Michael Caine
If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life. View quote
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To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of. View quote
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I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh. View quote
Michael Caine
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. View quote
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