Michael Caine Quotes

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

Calm, Duck, Surface

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

Game, Young, Old

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

End, Done, Wanted

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

Love, America, Film

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

Life, Time, Everything

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

Million, Nightmare, Dollars

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

Movies, Dead, Tv

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

Relationship, Age, Men

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 on our own.
Michael Caine

Home, Feelings, Others

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

Talent, Point, Whether

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

Top, Reach, Begins

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.
Michael Caine

Work, Money, Waiting

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

Mad, Read, Books

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

Best, Drunk, Playing

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
Michael Caine

Best, Choice, Second

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
Michael Caine

Time, America, Star

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Michael Caine

Writing, Write, Comedy

As an actor, I'll play anything.
Michael Caine

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

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Michael Caine

Life, Difficult, Write

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
Michael Caine

Speech, English, Texas

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine

Education, Wisdom, Heart

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine

Funny, Movies, Happen

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!
Michael Caine

Health, Happen, Between

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

Around, Though, Finest

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Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: March 14, 1933

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