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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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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.
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Someone said to me the other day: Well, you're eventually going to live until 110. And I said: Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100? How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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