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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

~Michael Caine

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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

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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.

~Michael Caine

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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

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What a lot of people don't 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.

~Michael Caine

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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.

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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

~Michael Caine

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: March 14th, 1933

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