To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
MICHAEL CAINEI 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.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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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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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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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!
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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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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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You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.
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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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I 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.
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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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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I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
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The trouble with women? Elbows.
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