Michael Caine Quotes
27 quotations by Michael Caine
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right. |
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. |
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. |
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. |
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. |
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. |
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. |
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. |
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. |
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. |
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. |
If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. |
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. |
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. |
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 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. |
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. |
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. |
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. |
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. |
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. |
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. |
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. |
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. |
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. |
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America. |
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. |