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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

~Michael Caine

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Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

~Michael Caine

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In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

~Michael Caine

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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

~Michael Caine

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People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.

~Michael Caine

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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.

~Michael Caine

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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.

~Michael Caine

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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

~Michael Caine

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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

~Michael Caine

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I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

~Michael Caine

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: March 14th, 1933

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