Top 200 Michael Caine Quotes (2023 Update)
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51. “My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O’Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.”

— Michael Caine

52. “You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.”

— Michael Caine

53. “And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.”

— Michael Caine

54. “If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.”

— Michael Caine

55. “Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.”

— Michael Caine

56. “I need a challenge ’cause I don’t get the girl anymore.”

— Michael Caine

57. “You’re your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don’t be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.”

— Michael Caine

58. “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 have the looks any more, then it’s over.”

— Michael Caine

59. “The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That’s what I want to do.”

— Michael Caine

60. “Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.”

— Michael Caine

61. “I don’t like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can’t refuse.”

— Michael Caine

62. “I’m always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.”

— Michael Caine

63. “This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.”

— Michael Caine

64. “I don’t want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.”

— Michael Caine

65. “It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.”

— Michael Caine

66. “I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.”

— Michael Caine

67. “I don’t do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I’m funny and I do like to laugh.”

— Michael Caine

68. “If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.”

— Michael Caine

69. “I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.”

— Michael Caine

70. “I’ve been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn’t even know someone had taken that picture.”

— Michael Caine

71. “Nobody’s a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.”

— Michael Caine

72. “I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.”

— Michael Caine

73. “I see myself as 38, but you don’t notice it.”

— Michael Caine

74. “You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.”

— Michael Caine

75. “I don’t worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you’ll go insane.”

— Michael Caine

76. “You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.”

— Michael Caine

77. “I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn’t.”

— Michael Caine

78. “The trouble with women? Elbows.”

— Michael Caine

79. “Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.”

— Michael Caine

80. “It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.”

— Michael Caine

81. “Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn’t even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.”

— Michael Caine

82. “I’m not tough anymore, I’m 82.”

— Michael Caine

83. “I spent my life in the library reading books.”

— Michael Caine

84. “No English director would’ve cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.”

— Michael Caine

85. “If you’re a leading actor you don’t work with another actor. You work with a lady.”

— Michael Caine

86. “People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.”

— Michael Caine

87. “You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.”

— Michael Caine

88. “By the time the Oscars are on I’ll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?”

— Michael Caine

89. “For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?”

— Michael Caine

90. “I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.”

— Michael Caine

91. “I don’t have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.”

— Michael Caine

92. “There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.”

— Michael Caine

93. “I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.”

— Michael Caine

94. “I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.”

— Michael Caine

95. “You don’t make any money when you’re my age. The stars get it all. That’s a lie, actually.”

— Michael Caine

96. “I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.”

— Michael Caine

97. “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 am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.”

— Michael Caine

98. “I’ve been on movies where I literally couldn’t hear what the other actor was saying. It’s very awkward.”

— Michael Caine

99. “Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.”

— Michael Caine

100. “We can only use British actors because everybody’s got to talk exactly the same.”

— Michael Caine