My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, ’cause he only stole the good stuff.
MICHAEL CAINEI feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
More Michael Caine Quotes
-
-
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 -
I’m the audience’s representative on earth.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, ‘It’s a wrap,’ it’s gone completely. I’m a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.
MICHAEL CAINE -
A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
MICHAEL CAINE -
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
MICHAEL CAINE -
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 person.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINE -
When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
MICHAEL CAINE -
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
MICHAEL CAINE -
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
MICHAEL CAINE -
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINE -
When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.
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