English - Actor | March 14, 1933 -
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.
Michael Caine
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
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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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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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