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
men thinking want
I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
actors want doing-nothing
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
pigs wanted ran
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
selfish want reason
Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
actors want saws
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
makeup want firsts
The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
home boys want
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
years film wanted
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
coffee want dinner
I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
hey want quiet
Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.
want use sometimes
They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
thinking old-things want
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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.