Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
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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've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
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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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You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
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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 admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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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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Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
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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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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 spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
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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.
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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've always played very human sort of characters.
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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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Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.