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  • 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.

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