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flixster.actor.standard.02.162652646 - flixsterMovie/TV title: The Prestige
Character name: Cutter
Quote(s): "Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called 'The Pledge'. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called 'The Turn'. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call 'The Prestige'."
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Michael Caine Quotes
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I can't think of one I could see again.
Michael Caine

On how today's "banal" films pale against cinema classics of the past, in interview with The Times, September 2006
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine

My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not the part. Now I get the part but not the girl.
Michael Caine

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
Michael Caine

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Michael Caine

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine

First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Michael Caine

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
Michael Caine
Spoken in Alfie, 1966

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
Michael Caine

Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses.
Michael Caine

Never trust anyone who wears a beard, a bow-tie, two-toned shoes, sandals or sunglasses.
Michael Caine

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