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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.
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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having 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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.
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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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Someone said to me the other day: Well, you're eventually going to live until 110. And I said: Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100? How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
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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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I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
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I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
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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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