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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
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
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The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
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I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
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Someone said to me the other day: Well, you're eventually going to live until 110. And I said: Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100? How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
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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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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'
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No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
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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 want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
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I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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