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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
Michael Caine
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.
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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
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My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
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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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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I used to get the girl now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
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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 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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One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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