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Sir Michael Caine

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first: 2009-12-20
most recent: 2009-12-20
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“I would take a great bed when we furnished our homes at first we lived in luxury hotels, you know, and they always make a study and any mattress we have anywhere is based on a name of a mattress we found in a hotel and the pillows would be fifty percent goose down and fifty percent feathers because that's the right thing for me”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The character was an architect who built sort of modern buildings. He had a girlfriend called Dominique Frankon. My oldest daughter is called Dominique after Dominique Frankon. If I hadn't been an actor I would have wanted to be an architect.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, until I met my wife, and then she stopped all that. I think my wife saved my life, you know. Anyway, it's John Lennon and his Christmas carol is called Happy Christmas. And there is a little brackets after it because it's the other line as war is over. Unfortunately it isn't, but we all wish it was.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My final watch Christmas Day is a carol. It's by John Lennon, who I knew and liked very much. We were both at the Cannes Film Festival, drinking a little too much, and so I got to sort of know him like that there. I noticed he always introduced himself to anyone as John Lemmon. Anyway, we won't go into that story, tried to.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the end of lunch, just before we had the Christmas pudding, we opened a bottle of champagne, and we all wish each other the best. That's the best moment for me.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“fat so it soaks in. Get them absolutely dry, let them steam and go dry, put the lid back on, shake em so they go all fluffy, and then And then put em in cold olive oil with rosemary and sage in it.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I cook. I don't do veg, my wife's a vegetarian, so she's fantastic a veg. Oh, I do do veg, I do the best roast potatoes in the world according to Michael Winner.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The whole place is full of decorations, Christmas carols going on all day, the Queen's speech goes on everything that is traditional goes on in my house, and the food I always get too much. I always get too much.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, oh yeah I grew up during the war so there was no Christmas and so it's psychological with me I overproduced Christmas like Sam Goldwyn. You know what I mean?”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like fourteen months ago I didn't have any. Now I've got three, I've got my youngest daughter, had a grandson last year, and this year she had twins.”
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“I was very proud of her inasmuch as she had taken care of everybody. Which was her? I suppose I've inherited that from myself.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She used to go and see him every Monday. The only time of course she never went to see him was during the war, but she saw him every Monday the nurse told me, and she had she took a Bible. Every time she was a new nurse she took a Bible and made him swear on the Bible they would never reveal who he was because she thought that it would harm my career. That's how protective of me she was.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I had a half brother whom my father was weighing the army in India and obviously she fell by the wayside. And we had this half brother who had been an epileptic. and they had put him in a home with stone floors, and of course he battered himself into not insanity to sort of Eventually I went to see him. Yet, and I couldn't understand what he said, but the nurse knew what he said, and I talked to him.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What did she make of Beverly Hills? Beverly Hills My mother was a sort of Mrs Malaprop in a funny way, and we were driving through Beverly Hills and she said, Oh, I think it's lovely, she said. Look at the flowers. All that hysteria growing up the walls. And I never corrected her, and I said. Mum, you got it absolutely right here.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the strangest part was that many years earlier I was in Paris and I was friends with a singer called Claude Francois and Claude Francois recorded this song called Comdabitud as usual. Many, many years later. I was watching Sinatra starts singing and I'm sitting there thinking I noticed some And Paul Anchor, who's a friend of mine's there with us, he said I wrote this lyric. I said have I heard this song before he said yes. He said it was a song French song and I thought Claude Francois I said was it called Com Dabby two Did he said Yes So this is Paul Anka's fantastic lyric to Comdabituda but also it's called My Way”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sherlock McLean was a big star, and she had the right to choose her own leading man, and she saw Ibkris Violin, she brought me to Hollywood for the first time, and then she gave a party to introduce me to Hollywood. And the first person to come in was Gloria Swanson, who is shorter than you think, a tiny, little bit about five feet tall, and the second person to come in was Frank Sinatra, who was a great friend of Shirley. They didn't come for me, nobody knew who the hell I was or cared. And I met my idle Frank Sinatra. I loved Frank Sinatra.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The man who would be king yeah she was an actress for a month. Being an actor it's a very difficult life you know the hours and this and that and the other and I have a wife who has done my job. That's part of the success of our marriage, and the other sack part is two bathrooms. Never share a bathroom with a woman, there's never any room. You get the little corner with the toothpaste and the razor and her rest is taken up by stuff.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I managed to get her number, and then she wouldn't come out with me. But it's very funny. I phoned her ten or eleven times, and she wouldn't come out. and on the last time I found her. I went I am never going to phone this girl again and she said yes, and that was the love of my life. It's little things like that are so scary in life, you know?”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I encountered her my best friend at that time a guy called Paul, who eventually died a multiple sclerosis, but we were out there and drinking a lot and going nuts. And one night we were very tired and I said, I'll tell you what we'll stay in tonight and I'll cook and I'm a very good cook. It was a black and white television. I hardly knew how to turn a thing on, but the commercial came on for Maxwell House coffee with a girl shaking miraculous like Brazilian coffee beans and all that. And I saw this girl and I went absolutely nuts. I don't know why. I just went, that's it, that's her, that's the one. She's so beautiful. I've got to find out.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Something of an exception in Holland. Oh, Mimey, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's never been any blips or anything like that. No, no, no, no, no. No, we are a completely intertwined couple. You couldn't get us apart with a hand grenade.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh me, yeah, I'm not a bit like characters I play. Everybody think I'm Jack Carter or something slaughtered a life out of everybody.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a song that they always did in discotic. When it came to the end of the evening. They sort of gave everyone a little romantic chance before they went off into the night, and they always played Phyllis Nelson move closer.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your big breakthrough Yeah, well, I'd done a lot of work, and I'd done a lot of television. A lot of television I did the longest live play ever done by ITV to this day. It was two and a half hours called the other man. I was very skinny at that time'cause I'd been starving for years, and it was very good because at one point I wore two suits, two sets of clothing, because I had to go into prison, come out, and it was so quick I had to suit Velcroed on, and as I walked by they whipped the suit off and I was dressed in something else and walked into the next scene. And I did two and a half hours and I never fluffed a line. You know, it was all those years in wreck. Yes.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have to remember also I was a first generation of people who became actors who their first actor they saw was a movie, not a stage actor. And I was fascinated by movie. I should go to the cinema seven days a week. I was always fascinated by the cinema, and the theatre was a sort of sprat to catch a mackerel, actually. But it took a long time.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think I know what you mean by that. Yeah, well, I mean, no, we were young, single males, we were both famous, both had money, so we could get in anywhere and change the atmosphere, put it that way.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My next piece of music is I always get very confused when I tell people it is because I'm not quite sure myself. It's either called swollen by bent or bent by swollen. Well, I suddenly thought if they ever went and did a record with elbow, it would be a swollen bent elbow, you know?”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From my own personal experience on it, I was back where I come from, and the estate where we shot at the elephant castle, there is a mural on the wall with me on it. For me I met these young men and talked to them for two months I was there at night and I met these young men and talked to them and everyone felt that they had never been given a chance. And so I came away from there thinking that they need re educating and given a second chance.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there are moments in your life there was a moment in Korea when I thought I was going to die I don't want to go into this but I just thought I was going to die and you always wonder if you're a young man am I a coward or not? And I proved to myself I wasn't a coward, and that was it, that was done.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah, I was always a big fella, you know, but I'm a very peaceful man. I never look for trouble anywhere. I can talk my way out of trouble. I always did.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I spent a year in Germany as an occupation force in a regiment called the Queensro Regiment, and then I was transferred to the London Regiment, the Royal Fusiliers, and I was sent to Korea. I think they took all the troublemakers from the Queens and put them in Rolf Fusiliers, sent them to Korea to get rid of them, hoping we wouldn't come back.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's by a group called Chicane and it's no ordinary morning, and this is the first of two chill records I played chill music was started by Claude Shy in the Buddha Bai in Paris.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I thought to myself this was there for him. And it was funny because at about five six acres there, right on the edge of the tempest, and the queen had a right to go through privately through that gate in a path round the back of my garden. And so it was quite extraordinary, you know, one day I'd be gardening I'd look up and the queen would go by in a range rover.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got married shortly after that to prove that I wasn't and had a baby. But years later I bought a mill house at Windsor, next to Windsor racetrack, and we had our own private gate to the racetrack.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yea he did, yeah, but he never ever spoke about it. Did he not? But it was very funny because my father was a big horse racing gambler. He died at cancer when I was twenty six. And I was on my back, you know, I wasn't a successful actor, I was nothing, you know what I mean? When I said I was going to be an actor, that meant to him from his background that I was gay anyway.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. I had to show that I was in danger and it was detrimental to me, otherwise she said, well, it's company. All my friends are there, you know.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When my mother was a cleaning lady, eventually I became a movie actor, you know, sort of wealthy. And I said, you're cleaning? Do you know what the press will do if they get hold of this? Your cleaning floors while I was looking at the highlights, yeah. Yeah. And she said a funny thing to me. She said how much do you earn for a film? I said, Ma, I earn a million pounds for a film, and she thought for a while and she said How much is that? And I said You never have to work again, you never have to worry, you never have to do anything except enjoy your life. So will you please do that? And stop trying to get me into papers for not supporting my mother”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be gone. Yeah, we had been prepared that he was a hero. He was going off to fight for his country and save us all. I was probably six and a half seven my brother was three. My mother said a thing which defined the two of us for the rest of our lives. She said to us Your father has gone, now you two have got to look after me and we went right, mum. We became little men. And we've been like that ever I'm still responsible for everybody. I do it all the time. I control stuff. I'm not a control freak if you like.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, the next is not very romantic. This is me as a very patriotic Englishman. I'm very English, very patriotic about the whole country. And if I'm on a record show and I want to put across music that represents how I feel about my country, it would be Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma variations”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then I joined a club, but on the way up to the gym, you pass by this place where the amateur dramatic society was, and all the prettiest girls in the club were in there, and I had heard that they couldn't get any boys to join the dramatic society'cause it was sissy. So I thought now here's my chance, you know, I might get a kiss or girl. I was fourteen. And there was a girl in there that I liked very much, very pretty girl. So I joined the amateur dramatic society, and that's how I started”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh sure, yeah, and it was a very good job to have, very well paid, and so you always followed your father into it, but I didn't want to do that at all. What I'd done is as I grew up, I joined an amateur dramatic society, there was a man called Reverend Butterworth who was scraping all the villains off the streets and getting into clubs and, you know, being good and all that. Where are you a bit of a villain? Yeah, well, I was at the elephant castle by then, which is a rough area”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that was the depression I was born in the depression. Yeah, it wasn't a great time, I suppose, but I had a loving, attentive family. I was never hungry, I was never unloved, I was never dirty, and so I didn't know that there was any other and I didn't need to know there was any other life. Everything was fine. I had friends, little cockby friends and everything. I remember when I was three we heard a sound with a man shouting out half a nut, halfpenny all nuts, and we looked out the window. And there was this big black man with a pram full of bags of shredded coconuts.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is elbow. I was watching Glastonbury last year as you do When you're an old guy, and on they came, and I thought who the hell is this? and it became my favourite song because I loved a build on it and I loved not just a group, you know, a rock and roll group, but suddenly to add a great big orchestra to it, I thought that was fabulous. It's my favourite song.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because, well, no, I did Hannah and her sisters, and then I'd already agreed to do another picture Bloody George for I had ten days on that, and they were the ten days when the Oscar was on, and I couldn't get out of it.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, Hannah and her sisters, yeah. It's very difficult to win, Anosca. You know, I mean, I was first nominated for an Oscar for Alfie. But then I had Post Gofield in a man for all seasons, and Post Gofield was not only a friend of mine, he was my favourite actor, and I knew so much that Paul would win it that I never went. I then got nominated for sleuth. and Marlon Brando came in with the godfather, and that was my second bid at Oscar where I sort of disappeared very sharply into the background.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I make my own records. My kids, my friends, I stick it on my computer and every now and then everyone comes around on my computer and loads up their iPod. And I even did, I wasn't successful, but I did a chill record. But”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I liked I was always in discos, and actually I came upon Regine who started disco in Paris. In Paris at that time they always had these little nightclubs with a quartet or a trio or quintet, and she didn't have enough money for the band, so she played gramophone records. And of course in France you had the cinema tech and the bibliotech and she called it the disco tech. So that's where the name came from.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've always been a big disco fan, and so anything I choose is liable to have a bit of a beat to it, and I love cold play. This is the sort of bit of a disco one for me, but I know it's not disco, it's much better than that, but it reminds me because of the”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so. Well, you expect an old duffer to come on, you'll go playing Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth or something, you know, from...”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“about one hundred and twenty thousand pounds. Also, you see, I'm a member of the Academy, the Oscar Academy, just when it starts to get dark and miserable, we get all the movies that we've got to vote on, and we just sit there all through the winter watching movies and the cinema is everyone's favourite place.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not sort of designer with straight chairs. You have your own great big thing and a refrigerator in the arm with a couple of beers in it and everything. And my cinema's like that, but the projector and everything is the height of technical advancement. If a new projector comes out, I change it. I'd go for the best possible picture I can get the whole time.”
2009-12-20 · Desert Island Discs · Sir Michael Caine · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source