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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.
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 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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I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
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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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Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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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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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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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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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
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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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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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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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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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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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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,Easy doesn't enter into grown-up life.
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