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" Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. "
Michael Caine
Need
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Old Age
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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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" Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. "
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" I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that. "
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" I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. "
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" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "
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" I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work. "
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" I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men. "
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" I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. "
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" I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers. "
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" To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of. "
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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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" I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. "
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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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" The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. "
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" I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own. "
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" I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. "
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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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" A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over. "
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" The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. "
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