Michael Caine Quotes

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Michael Caine

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 14, 1933

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

Michael Caine

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

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Michael Caine

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

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

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

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

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

Michael Caine

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

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

Michael Caine

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

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

Michael Caine

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

Michael Caine

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

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Michael Caine

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

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

Michael Caine

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