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
get-better each-day talent
There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
waiting listening acting
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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?'
thinking long actors
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
believe mines i-believe
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
blonde invisible stage
If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.
writing actors comedy
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
want use sometimes
They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
truth reality trying
Maybe its time we stop trying to avoid the truth and let it have its day.
listening actors crafts
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
mother father catholic
I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
choices egotistical second-choice
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
wife stuff wonderful
There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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.