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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
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I come from the slums I come from a hard background I come from a poor family and I was a soldier.
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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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I don't think you retire from movies movies retire you.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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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 don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
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My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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