Michael Caine Quotes
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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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There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.
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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 am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
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If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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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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You're never too old to be crazy.
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I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here living for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.
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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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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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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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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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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.