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Michael Caine Biography

Sir Michael Caine CBE (/keɪn/; born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer and author. Known for his distinctive cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as an English film icon.

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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

Actors, Long, Sort, Think, Thinking

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

Drink, Family, Good, Red, Wine, Wines

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.

Use, Want, Sometimes, Round, Monitor

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes. " He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah. " I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

School, Boys, Grandpa, Grandson, Television

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Funny, Humorous, Mediocre, Ones, Roles, Theatre

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

Afterlife, Hope, Older, Fervently, Hoping

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

Editors, Lazy, Scripts, See, Trying

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

Body, May, Men, Old, Restless

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

Home, Hotel, Love, Matter, Suite, World

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Actor, Actors, Control, Directors, Movie, Stage

My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'

Down, Girl, Kings, Mother, Road, Took

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Class, Four, Lecture, Lectures, Quite, Start

You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.

Bathrooms, Essential, Everything, Love You, Thinking, Wind

I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

Army, Death, Elderly, Fun, Seen, Terrifying

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita. '

Answer, Answers, Educating, Film, Films, Performances

. . . some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Dark, Like, Logical, Men, Watches, World

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

Fun, Regret, Sitting, Old, Having

I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.

Choosy, Like, Stuff

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

Difficult, Play, Roles, Trying

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

Film, Million, Pounds, Said

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