Q&A Michael Caine
(TIME MAGAZINE Sunday, Jun. 19, 2005)
As a paternal butler in Batman Begins and Nicole Kidman's pop in Bewitched, Michael Caine is summer cinema's father figure.
Q: Did your Cockney roots prepare you to wait on Bruce Wayne?
A: Perfectly. My mother was a cook in a country house--several, actually, and they all had butlers.
Q: Have you thanked your Bewitched co-star Shirley MacLaine, who gave you your first Hollywood break?
A: I've always been grateful. She had a choice of leading men ... and she chose me. I was cheap.
Q: You're everybody's onscreen daddy lately.
A: I am. It all started when I was Austin Powers' father. Next I'm in a film called The Weather Man with Nicolas Cage, and I'm his father. [Cage] plays the world's biggest loser, and his father is the first one who notices this.
Q: You once did an instructional video on acting. Have any stars copped to watching it?
A: All the time. Gwyneth Paltrow told me the other day. People watch it out of amusement.
Q: In it you say actors should never blink. Why?
A: If you want to appear strong, never blink. Marlene Dietrich told me that. If you want to appear weak and funny, blink all the time. Hugh Grant never stops blinking.
(蚕：这句把我逗坏了。锈镉烂特可不是不停眨眼么！)
Q: How have the roles you're offered changed as you have aged?
A: The roles have gotten better, but the girls have disappeared.
（蚕：哈哈哈。）
我净记着他那句台词好听了：Good night, you princes of Maine, you Kings of New England。
