Michael Caine
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine, CBEis an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth14 March 1933
CityLondon, England
motivational actors talent
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
promise grandfather world
I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
stars wife half
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
home wife going-away
If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.
always-trying actors lasts
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
school boys grandpa
I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does."
girl may lasts
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.
book awful
Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
autumn garden tree
I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
thinking age would-be
I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
hate two people
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
crush depressing dark
Some men just want to watch the world burn
scripts suits
How can I change me to suit the script?
giving black actors
There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.