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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Michael Caine

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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.
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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.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
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You don't sacrifice your individuality you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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