When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

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  I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

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• Michael Caine:

  When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

• Michael Caine:

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

• Michael Caine:

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• Michael Caine:

  The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite som

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