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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I like this guy.
Good for Mr. Caine.
I love Michael Caine. He seems to be a more pragmatic actor (as well as a talented actor).
He started in Jaws 4, which was panned as a horrible movie. When asked about it he said: “Somebody said, ‘Have you ever seen Jaws 4?’ I said, ‘No. But I’ve seen the house it bought for my mum. It’s fantastic!’”
Impressed. He’s not a robot.
He’s one of my favorite actors.
Also a Korean war veteran. The British don’t make men like him anymore; the kind capable of.building an empire.
I’m glad I don’t live in the UK, because it’s looking more and more like Brexit isn’t going to happen.
Well that makes my day!!!!! He has always been my absolute favorite actor in the entire world. Even if I read that he was a dummy, I’d still love his work and I’d try not to think about his dumb politics.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, one of my all-time favorite movies.
At the beginning, the Irish sought freedom and opportunity, as is illustrated by the following summary from PRONI records regarding a particular examble:At the web site of PRONI can be found inspiring words about Irish emigrants to the U. S.
Of special note are the words of John Dunlap, who was responsible for the printing of the Declaraiton of Independence and wrote to his brother-in-law, Robert Rutherford, in Strabane, Co. Tyrone, extolling the advantages of the New World, on 12 May 1785. First, he referred to his brother, James Dunlap, who was likewise in America:
"... my brother James left this (sic) for Kentucky a few weeks ago; I expect him back in the summer; then perhaps he may take a trip to Ireland. The account he gives of the soil is pleasing but the difficulty of going to it from this is great; indeed the distance is not less than a thousand miles. I was there last year and must confess that although the journey is a difficult one I did not begrudge the time and labour it cost me. We are told the parliament of Ireland means to lay restrictions on those who want to come from that country to this; time will tell whether or no this will answer the purpose they intend. People with a family advanced in life find great difficulties in emigration but the young men of Ireland who wish to be free and happy should leave it and come here as quick as possible; there is no place in the world where a man meets so rich a reward for good conduct and industry as in America ... "Also excerpted from the PRONI site is the following observation from the DUNLAP/DELAP PAPERS Introduction at: "John Dunlap's is not an untypical life story of many who 'went west' from County Tyrone in the 18th century to make a new life and create a new country to which they then encouraged and assisted others to migrate. One went and succeeded and therefore others followed. By the time he died, on 27 November 1812, aged 66, John Dunlap had amassed a large fortune and had subscribed £4,000 in 1780 to the National Bank formed to supply the American Army, and he held 98,000 acres in Virginia and the adjoining counties of Kentucky. He also owned the land on which Utica, Ohio, stands.
"He had played his part in military affairs during the War of Independence, as a founder in 1774 of the 1st Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry; as a cornet he accompanied this command in the campaign of 1776-1777, taking part in actions at Princeton and Trenton. After the war, from 1789 to 1792, he was a member of the Common Council of Philadelphia. In 1812 he was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia.
"The site of his birth at Meetinghouse Street, Strabane, is marked by a plaque erected by Strabane Urban District Council in 1965."
I’ve always suspected that the entire NHS is paid for by Sir Michael.
Mine, too. Funniest movie I’ve ever seen.
And then there’s “The Man Who Would Be King”.
I remembering my family renting that one on VHS back in the day and laughing uncontrollably. Definitely one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.
Would they have immediately mentioned his net worth if he were anti-Brexit?
I think they had an anti-Brexit march today in London(LOL)
“Not a lot of people know that.”
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