Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
Michael CaineI 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.
Michael CaineI can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
Michael Caine