When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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
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I’ve had such a great time, I’d like to come back as me – and do it all over again.
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
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Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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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.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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Obsession is a young man’s game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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A man should dress in a way that you don’t notice. He looks good and you don’t know why. But it’s the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.
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When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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