Michael Caine Quotes
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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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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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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No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
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My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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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 spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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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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I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
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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 don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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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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Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
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There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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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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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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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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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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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.