Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition. — 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
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 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… — 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… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 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
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change… — 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
