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
coffee want dinner
I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
easy harder things-to-do
Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
play trying roles
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
soldier poor backgrounds
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
worry insane wipe
I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
girl character mirrors
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
women elbows trouble
The trouble with women? Elbows.
use difficulty ifs
Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
winning careers awards
It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
song growing-up pirate
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
views nowhere-to-go remakes
My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
jobs names broken
I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
alternatives growing considering
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.