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.
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!
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.
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.
enjoy paid
I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
blow doors radio-news
Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
ideas asking actors
And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.