Michael Caine Quotes

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters. — Michael Caine

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films. — Michael Caine

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time. — Dylan Moran

My boyfriend is a rock god baby
(and not kiss-of-death(sorry)) — Rachel Caine

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said. — Rachel Caine

Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive. — Rachel Caine

I spent my life in the library reading books. — Michael Caine

His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?"
"If you like."
"Oh," he said, "I like. — Rachel Caine

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. — Michael Caine

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident. — Michael Caine

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner. — Michael Caine

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself. — Michael Caine

Don't," Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. "You try to hurt her again and I'll pull your arm off. — Rachel Caine

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. — Michael Caine

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing. — Michael Caine

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it. — Michael Caine

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one. — Michael Caine

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam. — Michael Caine

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent. — Michael Caine

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. — Michael Caine

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. — Michael Caine

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? — Michael Caine

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! — Michael Caine

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you. — Michael Caine

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America. — Michael Caine

Jason talking about Michael -
"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped. — Rachel Caine

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. — Michael Caine

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. — Michael Caine

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

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

But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are,
whatever the hell you are, let's get this done with. — Michael Grant

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. — Michael Caine

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers. — Michael Caine

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet. — Michael Caine

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse. — Michael Caine

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. — Michael Caine

Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is. — Michael Grant

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books — Michael Caine

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. — Michael Caine

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films. — Mike Leigh

SHANE:WANT SOME SHANE ASKED.COME AND GET IT BAT BOY
MICHAEL:YOUR NOT MY BLOOD TYPE BRO — Rachel Caine

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh. — Michael Caine

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. — Michael Caine

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same. — Michael Caine

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life. — Michael Caine

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all. — Michael Caine

Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. — Michael Caine

Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '
you, Your Highness. — Michael Grant

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more. — Michael Caine

No you sick, stupid creep, I love you. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. You're sick inside, Caine, sick! But I love you.
- Diana — Michael Grant

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now. — Michael Caine

Get me out of this," Caine demanded.
Quinn said, "It's not so easy. You should know: you're the scumbag who invented cementing. — Michael Grant

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad. — Michael Caine

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you. — Michael Caine

The universe explodes, hell freezes, and Shane does something resonable. — Rachel Caine

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew. — Michael Caine

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses. — Michael Caine

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America. — Michael Caine

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation. — John C. Reilly

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. — Michael Caine

Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne — Rachel Caine

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor. — Bob Hoskins

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. — Michael Caine

Sam had kissed Astrid beside a freshly dug grave. Caine — Michael Grant

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home. — Michael Caine

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid. — Michael Caine

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! — Michael Caine

I'd say over my dead body, but I think you already made that point," Michael snapped. "Thanks for the visit. Now fuck off, man. — Rachel Caine

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together. — Michael Caine

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero. — Michael Caine

I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again. — Michael Caine

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years. — Michael Caine

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness. — Michael Caine

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. — Michael Caine

Michael, your my big brother. — Rachel Caine

Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream. — Rachel Caine

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. — Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me ... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. — Michael Caine

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. — Michael Caine

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. — Michael Caine

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. — Michael Caine

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. — Michael Caine

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures. — Michael Caine

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82. — Michael Caine

A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes. — Michael Caine

Michael, don't," Eve said. "He won't hurt us." Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious. — Rachel Caine

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' — Michael Caine

No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn ... yeah, just another day in the life. — Rachel Caine

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it. — Michael Caine

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem. — Michael Caine

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen. — Michael Caine

Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it. — Rachel Caine

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar. — Michael Caine

I just try to play more and more difficult roles. — Michael Caine

Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn't it?
"I've made some bad decisions," Caine said, not really meaning to say it out loud. — Michael Grant

You can't do anything else with people like this. You have to kill them all. Zil. Caine. Drake. You just have to kill them — Michael Grant

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true. — 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

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination. — Michael Caine