If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Image
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls -… — 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
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
I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here [living] for some fun. I think if you… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it. — 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
If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this… — 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 Image
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.” — 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 thing I… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Image
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Image
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image