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I don't think you retire from movies movies retire you.

Michael Caine

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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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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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My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
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If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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