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
years drunk research
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
views nowhere-to-go remakes
My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
acting lasers scalpels
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
movie thinking people
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
growing-up book elephants
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
fun littles might
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
texas opposites speech
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
birthday workout thinking
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
acting directors planning
You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
competition acting done
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
long acting asking
You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
weakness nastiness exposed
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
acting roles actors
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
circles actors circle-of-friends
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.