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
Michael Caine quotes about
acting earth audience
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
taken dancing wife
I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
waiting listening acting
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
swimming order people
People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
get-better each-day talent
There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
easy harder things-to-do
Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
enjoy paid
I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
people opinion realizing
What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
talking class ideas
If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
unhappy actors terrible
I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
blow doors radio-news
Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
ideas asking actors
And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
taken choices drug
I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
married adultery respecting-others
I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others properties.