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If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
Michael Caine
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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
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I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
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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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You don't sacrifice your individuality you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
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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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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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