Michael Caine Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael Caine
Michael Caine Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
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.
A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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.
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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.
I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.
I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
The standing ovation threw me ... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.
If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.
I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.
You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.