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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
Michael Caine
Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
Michael Caine
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine
I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
Michael Caine
I don't think you retire from movies movies retire you.
Michael Caine
I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
Michael Caine
I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
Michael Caine
I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
Michael Caine
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
Michael Caine
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.
Michael Caine
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.
Michael Caine
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
Michael Caine
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
Michael Caine
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
Michael Caine
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Michael Caine
You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
Michael Caine
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
Michael Caine
I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
Michael Caine
I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
Michael Caine
At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
Michael Caine
