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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 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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,Easy doesn't enter into grown-up life.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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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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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
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Acting is not a competition everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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