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
stars play roles
To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
play interesting people
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.
stars playing-someone fighter
When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
character years play
I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
play criminals persons
Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
play actors
As an actor, I'll play anything.
play trying roles
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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.