Michael Caine Quotes
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
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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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I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
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Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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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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80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
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I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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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.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
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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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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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 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.
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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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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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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.
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I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
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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.
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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?