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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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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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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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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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I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
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I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
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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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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
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I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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