Michael Caine Quotes
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
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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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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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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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I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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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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80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
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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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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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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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If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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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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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.
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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.