Michael Caine Quotes
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I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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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 heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.
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I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
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To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
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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 was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.
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I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
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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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There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
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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 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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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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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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My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
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You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.