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I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.

Michael Caine

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

Michael Caine

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

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

Michael Caine

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Michael Caine

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

Michael Caine

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Michael Caine

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

Michael Caine

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Michael Caine

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

Michael Caine

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Michael Caine

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

Michael Caine

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

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Michael Caine

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

Michael Caine

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Michael Caine

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

Michael Caine

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

Michael Caine

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Michael Caine

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Michael Caine

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Michael Caine

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

Michael Caine

As an actor, I'll play anything.

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.

Michael Caine

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Michael Caine

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Michael Caine