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
girl stars character
If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
class people colour
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
mother father school
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
character thinking perfect
To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.
makeup want firsts
The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
stars character interesting
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
character years play
I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
done havens
You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
fun army taught
Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
character humans
I've always played very human sort of characters.
awkward actors
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
jobs done very-happy
I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
soldier theater
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
actors reactions ifs
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.