Michael Caine

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

— Michael Caine

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer,…

— 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

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

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

— Michael Caine

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

— Michael Caine

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

— Michael Caine

“Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am,…

— 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

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

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

— Michael Caine

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I…

— Michael Caine

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

— Michael Caine

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

— Michael Caine

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

— Michael Caine

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

— Michael Caine

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

— 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

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

— Michael Caine

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie…

— Michael Caine

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

— Michael Caine

My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not…

— Michael Caine

My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.

— Michael Caine

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

— Michael Caine

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they…

— Michael Caine