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
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 name people
My name is Michael Caine - not a lot of people know that.
happy journey whether work
It's been a long, long journey. I just wanted to see whether I could get a nomination. And I've got one, I'm happy now and my work is done.
alright medical time
Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.
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.
boys people
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
looks enough young
I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
dirty naughty rotten
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
boys doors acting
I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
forever competition actors
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
acting earth audience
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
taken dancing wife
I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
waiting listening acting
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.