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 name people
My name is Michael Caine - not a lot of people know that.
bourgeois cockney dollars intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals million nightmare
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with this intelligence and a million dollars
movies people
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
michael
Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.
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.
pounds film said
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
couple grandchildren years
Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
getting-older opinion enough
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
alternatives growing considering
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
disrespect acting matter
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
afterlife
I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
directors actors stage
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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.
ovation towns talent
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.