Actor Quotes by Michael Caine

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

— Michael Caine

As an actor, I'll play anything.

— Michael Caine

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

— Michael Caine

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

— Michael Caine

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

— Michael Caine

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

— Michael Caine

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still…

— 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

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British Actor for twenty years

— Michael Caine

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

— Michael Caine

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

— Michael Caine

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was…

— Michael Caine

“In a close-up, choose just one eye of the actor you’re playing opposite, don’t skip between the eyes or you will just…

— Michael Caine

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael…

— Michael Caine

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is…

— Michael Caine

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one…

— Michael Caine

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the…

— 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

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One…

— 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

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

— Michael Caine

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

— Michael Caine

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

— 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 learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

— Michael Caine

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

— Michael Caine

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

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

— Michael Caine

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the…

— Michael Caine

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer,…

— Michael Caine

People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they…

— Michael Caine

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an…

— Michael Caine

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for…

— 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

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all…

— Michael Caine

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did…

— Michael Caine

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this…

— Michael Caine

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

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better…

— Michael Caine