I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEThere’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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
-
-
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
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 -
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who’s happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I’ve had success as I’ve gotten older, because I’m able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
MICHAEL CAINE -
You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINE -
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 -
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINE -
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I 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!
MICHAEL CAINE -
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 -
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
MICHAEL CAINE -
You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
MICHAEL CAINE -
A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.
MICHAEL CAINE