Michael Caine

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

— Michael Caine

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.

— Michael Caine

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

— Michael Caine

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

— Michael Caine

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

— Michael Caine

You're never too old to be crazy.

— Michael Caine

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

— Michael Caine

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

— Michael Caine

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

— Michael Caine

I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

— Michael Caine

I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.

— Michael Caine

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

— Michael Caine

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

— 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

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

— Michael Caine

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.

— Michael Caine

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney…

— 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…

— Michael Caine

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American…

— Michael Caine

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write,…

— Michael Caine

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't…

— Michael Caine

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

— Michael Caine

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews…

— Michael Caine

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which…

— Michael Caine

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so…

— 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…

— Michael Caine

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a…

— Michael Caine

My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea].…

— Michael Caine

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

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I…

— Michael Caine

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known…

— Michael Caine

I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls -…

— Michael Caine

I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness…

— Michael Caine

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

— Michael Caine

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

— Michael Caine

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

— Michael Caine

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

— Michael Caine

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

— Michael Caine

I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.

— Michael Caine

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

— Michael Caine