Michael Caine quotes - page 2

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. (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
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
Michael Caine
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
If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
Michael Caine
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. (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
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
Michael Caine
You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor.
Michael Caine
Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.
Michael Caine
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
Michael Caine
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
The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
Michael Caine
I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
Michael Caine
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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As an actor, I'll play anything. (Michael Caine)
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.
Michael Caine
The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
Michael Caine
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Michael Caine
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
Michael Caine