Top 100 Michael Caine Quotes
#1. Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.
Bob Hoskins
#2. We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.
Nina Tassler
#3. 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
Steve Martin
#4. I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
Michael Caine
#5. 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
#6. Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.
Dylan Moran
#7. Michael Caine is so happy. Happy and healthy. I think he enjoys life. I think he's 82 now, and I have no clue if I'll be working at that age.
Paul Dano
#8. Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
Norman Jewison
#9. Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: 'What about those reviews then?'
'I don't read them.'
'Don't read them? You wrote them didn't you?
Antony Sher
#10. I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them ... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.
Tracey Ullman
#11. I had watched Alfie, but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.
Emily Mortimer
#12. Despite being extremely professional, Michael Caine has a giggle which was lethal for me because once you catch his eyes, once you realize the other person is a giggler too, it's curtains.
Emily Mortimer
#13. I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
Mike Leigh
#14. Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
Martin Freeman
#15. And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'
James Roday
#16. I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up
Frank Lampard
#17. Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.
John C. Reilly
#18. Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night?
Michael: Moms like me.
Rachel Caine
#19. I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
Michael Caine
#20. Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.
Rachel Caine
#21. I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
Michael Caine
#22. You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies."
"Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.
Rachel Caine
#23. About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine
#24. She almost cried out with relief when she saw the eyes of the boy who had never backed down. She saw the eyes of the boy who had first stepped forward to fight Orc and later Caine and Drake and Penny. She saw Sam Temple. Her Sam Temple.
Michael Grant
#25. 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
#26. I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine
#27. I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine
#28. 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
#29. Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne
Rachel Caine
#30. You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
Michael Caine
#31. Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.
Michael Caine
#32. Michael, don't," Eve said. "He won't hurt us." Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.
Rachel Caine
#33. Michael!" Oliver's voice came faint through the front door. "Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!"
"Trap," Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael's arm as he walked by. "Don't, man."
"What's he going to do? Make faces at me?
Rachel Caine
#34. Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
Michael Caine
#35. If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.
Michael Caine
#36. I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.
Michael Caine
#37. I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
Michael Caine
#38. His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?"
"If you like."
"Oh," he said, "I like.
Rachel Caine
#39. In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
Michael Caine
#40. We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
Michael Caine
#41. I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
Michael Caine
#42. Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
Michael Caine
#43. I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
Michael Caine
#44. Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
Michael Caine
#45. I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
Michael Caine
#46. If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
Michael Caine
#47. I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
Michael Caine
#48. 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
#49. Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
Michael Caine
#50. 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
#51. I've always played very human sort of characters.
Michael Caine
#52. Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
Michael Caine
#53. Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.
Rachel Caine
#54. My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
Michael Caine
#55. Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
Michael Caine
#56. I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
Michael Caine
#57. I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
Michael Caine
#58. I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
Michael Caine
#59. You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
Michael Caine
#60. The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
Michael Caine
#61. The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
Michael Caine
#62. No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn ... yeah, just another day in the life.
Rachel Caine
#63. Caine erupted in disbelieving laughter. Yeah, that'll do it. 'I'm just a kid, Your Honor!' Hah. They'll have to find a few scapegoats, and guess who it will be? You and me, surfer boy. You and me.
Michael Grant
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
Michael Caine
#67. January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
Michael Caine
#69. Claire: So we do nothing?
Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.
Rachel Caine
#70. I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
Michael Caine
#71. Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ... not waiting to deliver your lines.
Michael Caine
#72. A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.
Michael Caine
#73. Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Michael Caine
#74. There'll be guys who were in wars hearing what we did and thinking, 'Whoa.' You and me, we can say, 'You got yourself some medals solider? Yeah, well, I lived through the FAYZ.
Michael Grant
#75. I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Michael Caine
#76. Benno was the kind of bully who did what the bigger bullies told him to do. He didn't make his own judgments. And he wasn't stupid enough to think he could override Caine's orders. Something
Michael Grant
#77. I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
Michael Caine
#78. I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
Michael Caine
#79. 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
#80. You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
Michael Caine
#81. For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
Michael Caine
#82. You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
Michael Caine
#83. I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
Michael Caine
#84. One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
Michael Caine
#85. Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her.
Gaia laughed. Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.
Michael Grant
#86. But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
Michael Caine
#88. Get me out of this," Caine demanded.
Quinn said, "It's not so easy. You should know: you're the scumbag who invented cementing.
Michael Grant
#89. I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
Michael Caine
#90. 80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
Michael Caine
#91. If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine
#92. Michael ... Michael got bitten. And now he's a vampire. But he doesn't remember becoming one, and that's a big problem. So if you see him, don't, you know, hug. He bites. He doesn't mean it, though.
Rachel Caine
#93. Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.
Michael Caine
#94. Seriously," Shane said, "this kind of is the worst situation we've ever been in, right?"
"Speak for yourself," Michael said. "I got myself killed last year. Twice."
"Oh yeah. You're right - last year really sucked for you.
Rachel Caine
#95. If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
Michael Caine
#96. We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.
Michael Caine
#97. Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do ... well, you can't. Sorry about that.
Rachel Caine
#98. Bite me, Goth princess," Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything."
"Maybe you should say that to Michael."
"Not funny, Eve," Michael said.
Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit," she said.
Rachel Caine
#99. If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
Michael Caine
#100. This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
Michael Caine
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