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.
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.
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.
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.
retiring
You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
coal-miners actors photographer
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
tough
I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
pistols actors vote
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
oscars chance seventies
By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?