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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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 did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
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Acting is not a competition everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
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