When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
From 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.
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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.
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.
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
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.
As an actor, I'll play anything.
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