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
laughter father years
I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.
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.
war father hero
When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
father two over-you
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father."
mother father catholic
I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
father stuff causes
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
full held ovation quite regard standing talent threw town
The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
career girl
My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not the part. Now I get the part but not the girl.
europeans fancy passing secret successful
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.
boys people
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
michael
Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.
alright medical time
Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.
movies people
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
beach feet glasses malibu perfect six stars teeth
Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses