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later, fortunately. Roger Moore and Sean Connery are the two actors that I’m closest to.”
That said, Caine tries not to hang around too much with other actors.
“My friends are mostly musicians,” he says. “I also hang out with my driver, because I don’t drive any more.
“I used to drive, but I didn’t like it. I’m no good at all. I gave up driving ages ago for the safety of the public.”
He says the secret to lasting friendships is giving generously without being asked.
“I have about 10 extremely close male friends and we have never in 60 years had an argument about anything.
“We never disagree at all and none of us have ever asked anything of each other – but we’ve all given.
“It’s not that you don’t do anything for each other, it’s that you volunteer before you are asked if you see something going wrong.”
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friends he has are through his long-time second wife Shakira, aged 70.
“I’ve been married to the same woman for 46 years, so I have a very small feminine circle, mainly her friends,” he says.
And while he has an old-fashioned approach to relationships, Caine has joined the social media revolution... well, sort of.
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His Twitter account has more than 618,000 followers, but he confesses that he is averse to modern technology – even mobile phones.
“I read texts, but I don’t send them,” he confesses. “I never answer the phone. But my wife is a computer genius and a telephone lunatic. She does everything. She’s amazing, my missus.
“I have Twitter but I don’t do it. She would do it, if something happens. I never tell anybody anything on Twitter.
“But I answer and if something comes out in the papers that I don’t like, I tweet. But I don’t know about Facebook and Snapchat.” While the film legend is not overly tech savvy he certainly admires the fortunes amassed by social media magnates like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sergey Brin.
“Those people are billionaires,” he says. “I think: If only I’d have thought of that! You just sit in your attic, and you go: ‘I’ll invent Snapchat!’ And two years later you’ve got $30billion.
“I’ve been busting my a**e for years, just to get a million. I’ll get it soon,” he jokes.
He’s actually worth more than £60million, according to recent estimates. But he still hates it when strangers ask him to autograph photos. “You know they’re going to sell it,” he quips. But at least he isn’t bothered by people asking to take selfies with him.
He adds with a grin: “It’s usually foreigners, but not Londoners... all Londoners have a selfie with me already.”
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