Michael Caine

How can I change me to suit the script?

— Michael Caine

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

— Michael Caine

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

— Michael Caine

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

— Michael Caine

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

— Michael Caine

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

— Michael Caine

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

— Michael Caine

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

— Michael Caine

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

— Michael Caine

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to…

— Michael Caine

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I…

— Michael Caine

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change…

— Michael Caine

When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and…

— Michael Caine

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

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I…

— Michael Caine

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it…

— Michael Caine

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same…

— Michael Caine

They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those…

— Michael Caine

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary.…

— Michael Caine

You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or…

— Michael Caine

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent…

— Michael Caine

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would…

— Michael Caine

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of…

— Michael Caine

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they…

— Michael Caine

If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're…

— Michael Caine

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

— Michael Caine

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

— Michael Caine

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

— Michael Caine

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

— Michael Caine

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

— Michael Caine

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

— Michael Caine

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.

— Michael Caine

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

— Michael Caine

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

— Michael Caine

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

— Michael Caine

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was…

— Michael Caine

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

— Michael Caine

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

— Michael Caine

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

— Michael Caine

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

— Michael Caine