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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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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
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I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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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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You don't sacrifice your individuality you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
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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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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
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I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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You're never too old to be crazy.
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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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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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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.
Michael Caine
