Michael Caine Quotes
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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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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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To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
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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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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 try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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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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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 spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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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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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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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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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 regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
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I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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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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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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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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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 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.