Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over

''I''m always asked questions - by fans, by other actors and friends, by my grandchildren. They want to know how I''ve lasted so long, how I handle fame, why I chose to do some of my films, which films and actors I like best and so forth. They also want to know what makes me tick, what makes me get up in the morning in my 90s, and whether I''ll ever retire. (The answer to that one is ''No!) Over a long life, I''ve learnt a lot and had the opportunity to reflect. I''ve seen a new generation grow up, among them my own grandchildren, facing the world with all its challenges and problems. I hope they''ll find Don''t Look Back, You''ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life helps them to be optimistic - and shows that anyone can blow the bloody doors off''.

Auteur

Sir Michael Caine CBE has been Oscar-nominated six times, winning his first Academy Award for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters and his second in 1999 for The Cider House Rules. He has starred in over one hundred films, becoming well-known for several critically acclaimed performances including his first major film role in Zulu in 1964, followed by films including The Ipcress Files, Get Carter, Alfie, The Italian Job, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Educating Rita, and more recently The Dark Knight, Is Anybody There? and Harry Brown. He was appointed a CBE in 1992 and knighted in 2000 in recognition of his contribution to cinema. His 2018 memoir Blowing the Bloody Doors Off *was a huge bestseller, and his first thriller - *Deadly Game - was published to great acclaim in 2023.

Married for more than 45 years, with two daughters and three grandchildren, he and his wife Shakira live in London and Surrey.

Texte du rabat

The winner of two Academy Awards, starring in over 160 films over eight decades, Michael Caine has found his place as not just one of the best screen actors of our times, but also one of our most loved and admired.   

In conversation with writer and friend Matthew D'Ancona, he looks back over his long life, the good times and the bad, the setbacks he's learned from, the people who've inspired him, the changing times he's lived through, and what, at the foundation of it all, has meant the most to him, and what he hopes his legacy will be.

This is Michael Caine's funny, wise, entertaining and eternally optimistic guide to life.