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
dirt theater treated
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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.
coal-miners actors photographer
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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.
successful thinking passing-by
I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.
thinking retiring
I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
love-you thinking wind
You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.
speak speed cockneys
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
america film foreigners
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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.
fun army elderly
I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
actors want saws
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
meaningful enjoy larry
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
blow doors radio-news
Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!