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
boss gold actors
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
daughter grandchildren wife
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
retiring
You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
film paid
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
coal-miners actors photographer
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
awkward actors
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
tough
I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
pistols actors vote
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
waiting refuse i-can
I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
editors lazy trying
I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
laughter father years
I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.
oscars chance seventies
By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
nominations might gods-will
God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
wander
I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.