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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've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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 love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
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I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
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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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