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
bigs blockbuster
I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
baseball baseball-caps caps
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
retiring
You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
home boys want
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
years film wanted
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
nominations might gods-will
God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
waiting refuse i-can
I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
korea soldier world
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
giving people advice
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
movie stars differences
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'
father two over-you
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father."
class people guy
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
nice hero dark
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
movie thinking acting
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.