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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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You're never too old to be crazy.
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Obsession is a young man’s game.
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If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
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My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
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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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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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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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