Michael Caine Quotes
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One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
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It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.
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Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
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By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
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I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
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My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
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At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
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I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
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My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
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My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
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If you're a gardener you don't need a gym... You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'
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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
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Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
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If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
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I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.