Michael Caine Quotes
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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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'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
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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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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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One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.
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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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We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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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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Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.
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If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.
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I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.
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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 circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
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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'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
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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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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 don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
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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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You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
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In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'