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I spent my life in the library reading books.

Michael Caine

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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
Sir Michael Caine
CBE
Sir Michael Caine
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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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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.
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If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
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What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
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If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
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I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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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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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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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
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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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I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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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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