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
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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.
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I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
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If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
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Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.
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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with this intelligence and a million dollars
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You're a big man but you're in bad shape' from Get Carter
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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It's been a long, long journey. I just wanted to see whether I could get a nomination. And I've got one, I'm happy now and my work is done.
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Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses
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What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
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My name is Michael Caine - not a lot of people know that.