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
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Michael Caine
At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Michael Caine
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
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine
I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
Michael Caine
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
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
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
I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
Michael Caine
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
Michael Caine
If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
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
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Michael Caine
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Michael Caine
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
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
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
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
Michael Caine
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
Michael Caine
When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
Michael Caine