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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

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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I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
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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 looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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