Michael Caine Quotes
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A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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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 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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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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 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'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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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'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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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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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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I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
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I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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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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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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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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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.