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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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.
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I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.
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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.
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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.
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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.