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
editors lazy trying
I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
jobs hands wings
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
selfish want reason
Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
stars play roles
To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
play interesting people
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.
dirt theater treated
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
unhappy actors terrible
I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
coal-miners actors photographer
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
daughter grandchildren wife
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
successful thinking passing-by
I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.
thinking retiring
I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
love-you thinking wind
You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.
speak speed cockneys
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
america film foreigners
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.