Posted on 10/20/2018 10:08:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sir Michael Caine, the iconic British actor who has a net worth of $78 million, said he strongly supports Brexit -- the plan for England to leave the European Union (EU) next year -- and stressed that he doesn't listen to the liberal pundits who claim that Brexit will make people poorer and added that it is better to be "a poor master of my fate" than to rely on a stranger to supposedly make "me rich by running it."
"I don't listen to all these pundits," said Caine on the Oct. 18 broadcast of BBC Radio 4 Today. "I'm a Brexiteer myself. Certainly."
He continued, "People say, 'Oh, you'll be poor, you'll be this, you'll be that.'"
"I say I'd rather be a poor master of my fate than having someone I don't know making me rich by running it," said Caine, who is married and has two children and three grandchildren.
Caine, 85, has acted in more than 125 films, including The Dark Knight trilogy, Goldmember, Hannah and Her Sisters, A Bridge Too Far, and Zulu. Seventy-three films he starred in have grossed more than $8.3 billion worldwide, according to The-numbers.com. Caine was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two of them.
Caine supports the Conservative Party in England. In the late 1970s, Caine moved to the United States because of the then-oppressive taxes in England.
As he told the Essex Chronicle in 2009, "I realised that's not a socialist country [Britain], it's a communist country without a dictator, so I left and I was never going to come back.
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Absolutely. The Brits are smart for getting out before the whole project collapses or goes further down the road toward authoritarianism. It is always essential to be the master of your own destiny and not to surrender your national sovereignty.
If I remember correctly he came up from the slums of London. I think they were called the “Elephant” section and were a place of dire poverty.
Stole the show in Miss Congeniality.
Discovered it while researching family’s genealogy. Thought it gave a neat perspective on the attitudes and desires of the people who were coming to America at that time. What bravery and courage and desire for freedom! Sad that such understanding seems to be absent from many today!
B I N G O !
Correction,you’d be both poor and these people’s servants.
Socialism only enriches those who control it.
Sir Michael Galt. Going galt in today’s regressive world is akin to knighting yourself with protective armor.
Beside “Zulu” and “The Man Who Would be King” I recommend “Harry Brown” - a good 2009 movie in which Caine takes out the trash, Dirty Harry style.
An actor who talks sense? How did that ever happen?
I remember arguing with the FReepers who cheered on Theresa May. I said at the time that replacing one pro-EU cheerleader Prime Minister (David Cameron) with another pro-EU cheerleader Prime Minister (May) was pointless.
Their response was it didn't matter what her PERSONAL feeling about Brexit were, since she had pledged to abide by the will of the voters and move forward on Brexit.
How's that been working out lately?
Bravo Michael Caine. Have liked him since I first saw ZULU fifty years ago. Now I like him more.
Ha ha. He's an actor. It's a profession or job like any other and one must make a living. Some films are garbage, some are not. You just keep working. I'm sure Michelangelo had some throw-away paintings and sculptures, but those are not what he is remembered for.
Silly old white guy.
Peachy Carnehan and Daniel Dravot.
I have ALWAYS liked this guy! :-)
He should have followed that up with “have an issue? Here’s a tissue.”
120 years of progressivism and we still have folks who assert their right to individualism. We need more reeducation camps.
Werent they just reporting that the EU has discovered fraud on a large scale.
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