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I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
Michael Caine
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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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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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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 not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
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They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
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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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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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Some men just want to watch the world burn
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.
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I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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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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There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
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I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
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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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Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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