Michael Caine Quotes
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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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I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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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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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.
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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.
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I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
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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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If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
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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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I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
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You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
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I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here living for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.