Michael Caine Quotes
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
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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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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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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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Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.
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My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
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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 need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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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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Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
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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 had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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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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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.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.