Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

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From his boss as the butter factory who told him about the Stage newspaper, all the way to Hollywood John Wayne. Although primarily aimed at those with a yen for performance, his advice is useful for anyone wanting to better themselves.

There is some repetition in the book, but look, it's not that long, so you move through it pretty quickly. He determines to live in the current moment and even tells his grandchildren, "Don't look back, you'll trip over! Later on in the book, Caine takes the easy way out when forced to acknowledge the scandal surrounding Woody Allen – who directed Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), the film that won Caine his first Academy Award – claiming that the allegations against Allen came as a "great and terrible shock" to him.John Wayne landing his helicopter in the Beverly Hills Hotel garden when it was expressly forbidden . Now in his 85th year, he looks back at an incredible life and career and everything it’s taught him – sharing hard-won wisdom, brilliant insights and stories, as well as the skills of acting and the movies we can all learn from. Sir Michael Caine, CBE was born Maurice Joseph Micklewaite near Elephant and Castle in South London.

Caine has also clearly worked very hard, and he wants his readers to know that he’s never taken his success for granted. With stories and anecdotes from his more than 170 movies, he relates those things he’s done right as well as those he’s done wrong, and the different impacts each had on his life and career. To be fair, I'm sure most narrators have episodes like these, but usually the editing is better and another take of the sentence in question is done to fix it. Learn what you can from what you get"; "Be lucky: be prepared"; "Use the difficulty"; "Just say yes", and "Whatever it is, give it 100 per cent".This is another of those books you read in the subject's voice - throughout this I heard in my head Michael Caine's cockney accent, yet considered and polite in a way many cockney's are not! One thing is certain Sir Michael Caine is still very much a busy actor even only because Christopher Nolan does employ him on a very regular basis, most famously as Alfred the butler in the Dark knight trilogy.