Michael Caine Quotes
"When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Right)
"If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking."
- Michael Caine
"If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Control, Actor)
"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Movies, America)
"My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Work)
"Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Man, Obsession, Old)
"Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Time, Career, First)
"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Age, Money, Old)
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Fault, Present)
"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Actor, Being, Research, Years)
"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Thought, Actor, First, Want)
"The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Talent)
"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."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Wife)
"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Intelligence)
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
- Michael Caine
"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Class)
"Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Funny, Movies, Silly)
"When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins."
- Michael Caine
"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Talent, Actor)
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Choice)
"Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Time, America, First)
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Comedy, Writing)
"At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either."
- Michael Caine
"English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite."
- Michael Caine
(Related: English, Speech)
"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Education, Heart, Accomplishments)
"I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter."
- Michael Caine
"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Life, Time)
"I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Age, Men, Sadness, Woman)
"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."
- Michael Caine
(Related: American, Quiet)
"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Books, Influence)
"I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it."
- Michael Caine
"I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Love, America, Americans, Film, Foreigners)
"Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Life, Actor, Comedy)
"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
- Michael Caine
(Related: Conviction, End)