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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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 don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
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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've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.
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My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
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My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
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I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
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I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
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