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 Copy Share Image
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty-… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up. — 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