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
real ideas acting
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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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.
ideas asking actors
And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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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.
movies people
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
happy journey whether work
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.
michael name people
My name is Michael Caine - not a lot of people know that.
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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.
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.
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.