Michael Caine Quotes

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Michael Caine

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 14, 1933

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

Michael Caine

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

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 meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Michael Caine

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

Michael Caine

You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor.

Michael Caine

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

Michael Caine

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Michael Caine

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

Michael Caine

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

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

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Michael Caine

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

Michael Caine

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

Michael Caine

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

Michael Caine

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

Michael Caine

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

Michael Caine

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

Michael Caine

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Michael Caine