Michael Caine quotes

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins. (Michael Caine)
... some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Michael 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
If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
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
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
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
Michael Caine
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine
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
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
I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. (Michael Caine)
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Michael Caine
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
Michael Caine
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
Michael Caine
I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
Michael Caine
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. (Michael Caine)
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
Michael Caine
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine