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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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 have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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