The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years. — 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
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar. — 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
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
I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in… — 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 heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to… — 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
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine Copy Share
If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady. — Michael Caine Copy Share
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
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
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
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast. — Michael Caine Copy Share
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. — Michael Caine Copy Share
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home. — Michael Caine Copy Share
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward. — Michael Caine Copy Share
My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up… — Michael Caine Copy Share
