Actors Quotes by Michael Caine

As an actor, I'll play anything.

— Michael Caine

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

— 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

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

— 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

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

— Michael Caine

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

— 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

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'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

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have…

— 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 becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if…

— 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

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 admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

— Michael Caine

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

— Michael Caine

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

— Michael Caine

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

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

— 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

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

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always…

— 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

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so]…

— 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