Michael Caine Quotes

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

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!

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.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

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.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry o

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

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.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

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

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

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

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.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.