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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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I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
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I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
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I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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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 need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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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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The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
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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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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 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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