Michael Caine Quotes
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Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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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I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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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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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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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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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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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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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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But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
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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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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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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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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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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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I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.