You don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINEYou don’t sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
MICHAEL CAINEMy mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
MICHAEL CAINEAnyone can write. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
MICHAEL CAINEBooks were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
MICHAEL CAINEMy understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
MICHAEL CAINEI was so poor for so long that I didn’t use anything. I didn’t drive cars, I didn’t eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I’ve been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven’t caught up with my youth.
MICHAEL CAINEAt 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 CAINEBe like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINEGreat acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.
MICHAEL CAINESome 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 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!
MICHAEL CAINEI’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEI’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.
MICHAEL CAINEI did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
MICHAEL CAINEThe basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
MICHAEL CAINEMy 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 CAINE