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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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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 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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One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.
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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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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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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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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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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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Obsession is a young man’s game.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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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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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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I used to get the girl now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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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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