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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

Michael Caine

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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
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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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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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I don't think you retire from movies movies retire you.
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You don't sacrifice your individuality you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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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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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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