Michael Caine Quotes
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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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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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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 are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, so I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
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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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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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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 on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
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My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.
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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to 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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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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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.