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Michael Caine Quotes about Character

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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

Michael Caine
Character, Acting, Actors
Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.88, Hal Leonard Corporation

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

Michael Caine
Character, Views, America

I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

Michael Caine
Real, Character, Sleep
"Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

Michael Caine
Girl, Character, Mirrors

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Michael Caine
Character, Play, Years
Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

Michael Caine
Stars, Character, Interesting
"Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.wknofm.org. May 30, 2013.

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.

Michael Caine
Character, Self, Two
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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.

Michael Caine
Girl, Stars, Character
"Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 30, 2013.

I've always played very human sort of characters.

Michael Caine
Character, Humans

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Michael Caine
Stars, Character, Transition

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.

Michael Caine
Character, Thinking, Giving
Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.272, Hachette UK

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