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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
- Michael Caine
#Acting
#Slow
#Talk
#Too Much
#Useful
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
#Everyone
#Famous
#Know
#Menu
#Restaurant
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
- Michael Caine
#Family
#Hard
#Poor
#Slums
#Soldier
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
#Actor
#Admire
#Dead
#Three
#Without
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
- Michael Caine
#Intelligence
#Million Dollars
#Million
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
- Michael Caine
#Anger
#Funny
#Humor
#Sense
#Wife
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
#Every
#Get
#Know
#Medical
#Time
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
#Know
#Me
#People
#Performance
#Romantic
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
- Michael Caine
#Age
#Money
#Need
#Old Age
#Old
The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.
- Michael Caine
#Car
#Drive
#Hate
#Mind
#Road
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
- Michael Caine
#Handsome
#Look
#Mirror
#People
#Success
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
#Born
#Broken
#Imagine
#Job
#Name
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
- Michael Caine
#Around
#He
#Screen
#Though
#Up
I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
- Michael Caine
#Clean
#Go
#Shot
#Tell
#Worry
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
- Michael Caine
#Bad
#Film
#Get
#Good
#Same
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
- Michael Caine
#I Can
#Know
#People Say
#People
#Say
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
- Michael Caine
#Education
#Heart
#My Own
#Own
#Wisdom
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
#Bathroom
#Everything
#Love
#Wife
#Wind
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
- Michael Caine
#Best
#Great
#Growing Old
#Me
#Old
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
- Michael Caine
#Actor
#Boss
#Friends
#Gold
#Who
When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
- Michael Caine
#Begins
#Climb
#Reach
#Top
#You
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
- Michael Caine
#Game
#Man
#Never
#Obsession
#Young
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
#Conviction
#Done
#End
#Things
#Wanted
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
- Michael Caine
#Age
#Men
#Own
#Relationship
#Sadness
#Woman
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
- Michael Caine
#Age
#Father
#Mother
#School
#Wife
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine
#Always
#Calm
#Duck
#Like
#Surface
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