Michael Caine Quotes
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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 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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It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'
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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 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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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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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.
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Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.
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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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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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My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
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I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.
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In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.
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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!'
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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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'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.
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As an actor, I'll play anything.
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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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My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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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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You're never too old to be crazy.