Michael Caine Quotes
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
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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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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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If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
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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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Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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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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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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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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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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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.
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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?'