Michael Caine Quotes
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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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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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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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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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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 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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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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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 need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
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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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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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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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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.
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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
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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.