Michael Caine Quotes - Page 7

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• Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Acting, Obsession

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.18, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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

  Years, Theatre, Care

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• I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Kissing, Amy

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Michael Caine

  Choices, Egotistical, Second Choice

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• The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Want, Saws

  "The Prestige - Michael Caine interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

  Michael Caine

  Circles, Actors, Circle Of Friends

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

  Michael Caine

  Baseball, Baseball Caps, Caps

  "The Prestige - Michael Caine interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Done, Very Happy

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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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.

  Michael Caine

  Careers, Awards, Firsts

  "Success? I never expected it, says Caine" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 1999.

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• I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

  Michael Caine

  Doing Nothing, Actors, Want

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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• I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

  Michael Caine

  Dirty, Naughty, Rotten

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• I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

  Michael Caine

  Play, People, Interesting

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• This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

  Michael Caine

  Meaningful, Enjoy, Larry

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• I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

  Michael Caine

  Achievement, Lifetime, Trenches

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• I'm the audience's representative on earth.

  Michael Caine

  Acting, Earth, Audience

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• I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

  Michael Caine

  Hands, Laughing, Frustrated

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.

  Michael Caine

  Stuff, Choosy

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• That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

  Michael Caine

  Real, Ideas, Acting

  Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

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• I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

  Michael Caine

  Trying, Feels, Comfortable

  "Master class" by Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2006.

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• When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

  Michael Caine

  Father, War, Hero

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• My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

  Michael Caine

  Views, Nowhere To Go, Should

  Source: www.chud.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Long, Actors

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

  Michael Caine

  Promise, Directors, Casts

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

  Michael Caine

  Tough

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• How can I change me to suit the script?

  Michael Caine

  Scripts, Suits

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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