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
should enjoy retiring
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
morning up-early stuff
I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
wander
I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
weakness nastiness exposed
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
class just-saying being-true
I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
bigs blockbuster
I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
baseball baseball-caps caps
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
retiring
You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
home boys want
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
years film wanted
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
nominations might gods-will
God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
waiting refuse i-can
I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
korea soldier world
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
giving people advice
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.