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
circles actors circle-of-friends
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
actors ifs
If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.
actors want doing-nothing
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
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.
actors want saws
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
years actors agents
When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
america england actors
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
boss gold actors
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
awkward actors
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
actors reactions ifs
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
pistols actors vote
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
order actors done
I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
use actors british
We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.