Michael Caine Quotes
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I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
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I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
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I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.
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You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
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I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
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It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
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When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
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I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
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I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.