Michael Caine Quotes

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

Great, Trying, Last

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
Michael Caine

Knowledge, Forward, Enough

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine

American, Quiet, Dirty

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
Michael Caine

Work, Good, Someone

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
Michael Caine

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
Michael Caine

Time, Girl, May

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
Michael Caine

Good, Door, Next

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
Michael Caine

Person, Sense, Actor

I'm the audience's representative on earth.
Michael Caine

Earth, Audience

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

Character, Made, Actor

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.
Michael Caine

Home, Wife, Made

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
Michael Caine

Schedule, Oscar

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine

Control, Cannot, Actor

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
Michael Caine

Famous, Become, Everyone

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
Michael Caine

Movies, America, After

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
Michael Caine

Good, Acting, Easy

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Michael Caine

Acting, Talk, Useful

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.
Michael Caine

Work, Mentality, Scripts

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
Michael Caine

Cool, Nice, Dark

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
Michael Caine

Love, Movies, Wife

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
Michael Caine

Time, Career, Oh

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

Age, Money, Old

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Michael Caine

Present, Nor, Fault

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 lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Michael Caine

Person, Made, American

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'
Michael Caine

Change, Between, Actor

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Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: March 14, 1933

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