"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."

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"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."

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Being

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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."

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