Michael Caine Quotes
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I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
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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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To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.
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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 love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
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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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I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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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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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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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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I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.
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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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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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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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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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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 don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
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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 just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.