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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

Michael Caine

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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
Sir Michael Caine
CBE
Sir Michael Caine
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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
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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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Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
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How can I change me to suit the script?
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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.
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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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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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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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 try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
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I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
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