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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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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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Obsession is a young man’s game.
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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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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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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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Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.
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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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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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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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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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Some men just want to watch the world burn
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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
Michael Caine
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations but if you do, only steal from the best.
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You're never too old to be crazy.
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