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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?
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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