I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying …not waiting to deliver your lines. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting.… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real… — Michael Caine Copy Share
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine Copy Share
If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady. — Michael Caine Copy Share
You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I… — Michael Caine Copy Share
I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year,… — Michael Caine Copy Share
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor. — Michael Caine Copy Share
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast. — Michael Caine Copy Share
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. — Michael Caine Copy Share
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home. — Michael Caine Copy Share
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward. — Michael Caine Copy Share
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up… — Michael Caine Copy Share
