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
fun regret sitting
I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
looks enough young
I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
dirty naughty rotten
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
boys doors acting
I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
forever competition actors
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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.
stuff facts occasional
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
relationship space pockets
It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.
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.