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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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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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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 never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.
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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.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations but if you do, only steal from the best.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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