Michael Caine Quotes
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There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
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I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
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I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
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I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
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In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.
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I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
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I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.
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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
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I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.
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I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.