I don’t have any regrets because I’m very optimistic, and live each day as though it’s the last.
MICHAEL CAINEThis is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
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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.
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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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.
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The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
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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.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
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