Michael Caine Quotes
-
You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.
-
If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
-
In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.
-
I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
-
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
-
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
-
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
-
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
-
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
-
I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.
-
I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.
-
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
-
What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
-
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
-
You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
-
No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
-
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.
-
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
-
80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
-
You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
-
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
-
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
-
If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
-
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.