Quotes by Michael Caine

About Michael Caine:

Sir Michael Caine is an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon.
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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

Michael Caine

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

Michael Caine

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

Michael Caine

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

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

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

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

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

Michael Caine

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

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

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Michael Caine

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a l...

Michael Caine

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someo...

Michael Caine

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

Michael Caine

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

Michael Caine

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

Michael Caine

Author Bio

  • NameMichael Caine
  • DescriptionEnglish actor and author
  • AliasesMaurice Joseph Micklewhite
  • BornMarch 14, 1933
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Writer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actor; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Donostia Award